Lamentations 5 ⓘ

5:1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

5:3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

5:4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.

5:5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

5:6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

5:8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honoured.

5:13 The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.

5:15 The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.

5:16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

5:17 For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:

5:18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.

5:19 You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.

5:20 Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

5:21 Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.

5:22 But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.