Category: Lamentations

American Standard Version (ASV):
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

King James Version (KJV):
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

American Standard Version (ASV):
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

King James Version (KJV):
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

King James Version (KJV):
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

American Standard Version (ASV):
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; He will no more carry thee away into captivity: He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover thy sins. [

King James Version (KJV):
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

King James Version (KJV):
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

American Standard Version (ASV):
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

King James Version (KJV):
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

King James Version (KJV):
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].

American Standard Version (ASV):
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

King James Version (KJV):
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

American Standard Version (ASV):
[ It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

King James Version (KJV):
For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

American Standard Version (ASV):
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.

King James Version (KJV):
They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.