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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "lamentations",
    "chapter": 5
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 5,
    "bookSlug": "lamentations",
    "bookCode": "LAM",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "LAM-5:1",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.1",
        "text": "Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.\nLook, and see our reproach."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "LAM-5:2",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.2",
        "text": "Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,\nour houses to aliens."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "LAM-5:3",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.3",
        "text": "We are orphans and fatherless.\nOur mothers are as widows."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "LAM-5:4",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.4",
        "text": "We have drunken our water for money.\nOur wood is sold to us."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "LAM-5:5",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.5",
        "text": "Our pursuers are on our necks.\nWe are weary, and have no rest."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "LAM-5:6",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.6",
        "text": "We have given our hands to the Egyptians,\nand to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "LAM-5:7",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.7",
        "text": "Our fathers sinned, and are no more.\nWe have borne their iniquities."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "LAM-5:8",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.8",
        "text": "Servants rule over us.\nThere is no one to deliver us out of their hand."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "LAM-5:9",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.9",
        "text": "We get our bread at the peril of our lives,\nbecause of the sword of the wilderness."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "LAM-5:10",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.10",
        "text": "Our skin is black like an oven,\nbecause of the burning heat of famine."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "LAM-5:11",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.11",
        "text": "They ravished the women in Zion,\nthe virgins in the cities of Judah."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "LAM-5:12",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.12",
        "text": "Princes were hanged up by their hands.\nThe faces of elders were not honored."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "LAM-5:13",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.13",
        "text": "The young men carry millstones.\nThe children stumbled under loads of wood."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "LAM-5:14",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.14",
        "text": "The elders have ceased from the gate,\nand the young men from their music."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "LAM-5:15",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.15",
        "text": "The joy of our heart has ceased.\nOur dance is turned into mourning."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "LAM-5:16",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.16",
        "text": "The crown has fallen from our head.\nWoe to us, for we have sinned!"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "LAM-5:17",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.17",
        "text": "For this our heart is faint.\nFor these things our eyes are dim."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "LAM-5:18",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.18",
        "text": "For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.\nThe foxes walk on it."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "LAM-5:19",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.19",
        "text": "You, Yahweh, remain forever.\nYour throne is from generation to generation."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "LAM-5:20",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.20",
        "text": "Why do you forget us forever,\nand forsake us for so long a time?"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "LAM-5:21",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.21",
        "text": "Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned.\nRenew our days as of old."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "LAM-5:22",
        "verseRef": "LAM.5.22",
        "text": "But you have utterly rejected us.\nYou are very angry against us."
      }
    ]
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