Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold 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 necks are under persecution: we labor, 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 have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:9
We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
Lamentations 5:13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell 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 is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Lamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.
Lamentations 5:19
You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20
Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Lamentations 5:21
Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22
But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.