Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+005   Lamentations 5 (ESV) 15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, 18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+004   Lamentations 4 (ESV) 11 The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations. 12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+003   Lamentations 3 (ESV) 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 23 they are new every […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+002   Lamentations 2 (ESV) 11 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city. 12 They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+001   LAMENTATIONS   INTRODUCTION When the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and deported much of its population, some residents were left behind in terrible conditions in and around the shattered city. To express their deep shame and grief over the destruction of their home, they wrote songs about its desolation and about […]