Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, 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
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
Lamentations 5:5
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:9
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
Lamentations 5:11
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have 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 hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Lamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Lamentations 5:19
Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
Lamentations 5:21
Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22
Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?