Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Lamentations 5:3
Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:4
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
Lamentations 5:5
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured--there hath been no rest for us.
Lamentations 5:6
To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned--they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
Lamentations 5:9
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
Lamentations 5:11
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins--in cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
Lamentations 5:13
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
Lamentations 5:14
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
Lamentations 5:15
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
Lamentations 5:16
Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.
Lamentations 5:17
For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
Lamentations 5:18
For the mount of Zion--that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
Lamentations 5:19
Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
Lamentations 5:20
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
Lamentations 5:21
Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22
For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us--exceedingly?