Category: Lamentations

  • Lamentations 5:11

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

    King James Version (KJV):
    They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.

  • Lamentations 5:12

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

  • Lamentations 5:9

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

    King James Version (KJV):
    We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Lamentations 5:10

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

  • Lamentations 5:7

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.

  • Lamentations 5:8

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.

  • Lamentations 5:5

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.

  • Lamentations 5:6

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

    King James Version (KJV):
    We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Lamentations 5:1

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

  • Lamentations 5:2

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.