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title: "Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 107 of 107
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-5/107/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 5, section 107. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-5/107/"
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# Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on Jeremiah and Lamentations, volume 5 of 5.

## 107. Chapter 5

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-5/107/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-jeremiah-and-lamentations-volume-5/107/#p-N

[¶0] 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what has come to us; Look, and see our reproach:

[¶1] 2 Our heritage is turned over to foreigners, Our houses to aliens.

[¶2] 3 Orphans are we become, without a father; Our mothers are as widows.

[¶3] 4 Our own water, for money we drink; Our own wood, for a price it comes to us.

[¶4] 5 On our necks have we suffered persecution; We have labored, and had no rest.

[¶5] 6 To the Egyptians we extended the hand, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

[¶6] 7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we their iniquities have borne.

[¶7] 8 Servants have ruled over us; None delivered from their hands.

[¶8] 9 With our life have we procured our bread, Because of the drought of the desert.

[¶9] 10 Our skins are like an oven black, Because of the burnings of famine.

[¶10] 11 Women in Sion have been ravished, Virgins in the cities of Judah.

[¶11] 12 Princes by their own hand were hung, The faces of elders were not honored.

[¶12] 13 Young men they took to grind, And boys under the wood fell.

[¶13] 14 Eiders ceased from the gate, Young men from their music.

[¶14] 15 Ceased has the joy of our heart, Turned into mourning has our dance.

[¶15] 16 Fallen has the crown of our head; Woe now to us, for we have sinned!

[¶16] 17 Therefore faint is our heart; For this darkener! are our eyes,

[¶17] 18 Even for mount Sion, which is desolate; Foxes pass through it.

[¶18] 19 Thou Jehovah for ever sittest, Thy throne is through all ages.

[¶19] 20 Why shouldest thou perpetually forget us, And forsake us for ever.

[¶20] 21 Turn us, Jehovah, to thee, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old;

[¶21] 22 Except thou hast wholly rejected us, And hast become very angry with us.

[¶22] PRAISE BE TO GOD