Lamentations 5
Lamentations 5How to read the Hangul
beginning the Christ salvation
- Bold, larger (ˈ) = say it strong and a little longer — the stressed syllable.
- Faint = weak and short (a reduced vowel). Don't give every syllable equal weight.
- Tiny 으 · 트 · 스 = barely voiced. English has no vowel there — stop on the consonant.
- Whole word faint (the, of, and, to…) = light and quick in a sentence; stress the content words.
- Small f v θ ð r = sounds Korean doesn't have — f: upper teeth on the lower lip; v: the same, voiced; θ/ð: tongue tip between the teeth; r: tongue curled back, touching nothing.
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.