My Daily Meditation
Today’s Reading - Lamentations 5
Friends for the last several days I have been posting the words of lament from the prophet Jeremiah. He had witnessed his nation turn from God, and is reaping the results of placing idols, and things of this world and man instead of believing in Him. We can feel the pathos of his writing. Friends, we are also bearing witness to the turning away from Him in our own nation. Return to Him. Make your day begin and end with His word.
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliens.
3 We are fatherless, even without father, and our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money, and our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we are weary, and have no rest.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands.
9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like as an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They defiled the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 The princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of the Elders were not had in honor.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The Elders have ceased from the gate and the young men from their songs.
15 The joy of our heart is gone, our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown of our head is fallen: woe now unto us, that we have sinned.
17 Therefore our heart is heavy for these things, our eyes are dim,
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: the foxes run upon it.
19 But thou, O Lord, remainest forever: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou art exceedingly angry against us
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