Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:4
We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
Lamentations 5:5
Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.
Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,
Lamentations 5:18
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.
Lamentations 5:19
Thou, O Jehovah, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20
Why do thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?
Lamentations 5:21
Turn thou us back to thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22
But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.