Holy Scripture
Lamentations 5:1
A church father on this verse
“Here in Chapter 5, the prophet, after many lamentations, addressed himself for a remedy by prayer. So, he first exposes the people's misery, second, he seeks mercy. As expressed in Verse 19: "But thou, O Lord, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations." The first idea (the people's misery) has two asp…”
Source: Septuagint
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1Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: Behold, and look on our reproach.
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— Lamentations 5:1 —
2Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, Our houses to strangers:
3We are become orphans, we have no father, Our mothers are as widows.