Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:

Behold, and see our reproach.

²Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,

Our houses unto aliens.

³We are orphans and fatherless;

Our mothers are as widows.

⁴We have drunken our water for money;

Our wood is sold unto us.

⁵Our pursuers are upon our necks:

We are weary, and have no rest.

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians,

And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers sinned, and are not;

And we have borne their iniquities.

⁸Servants rule over us:

There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives,

Because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven,

Because of the burning heat of famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion,

The virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand:

The faces of elders were not honored.

¹³The young men bare the mill;

And the children stumbled under the wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate,

The young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased;

Our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head:

Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

¹⁷For this our heart is faint;

For these things our eyes are dim;

¹⁸For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:

The foxes walk upon it.

¹⁹Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever;

Thy throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,

And forsake us so long time?

²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned;

Renew our days as of old.

²²But thou hast utterly rejected us;

Thou art very wroth against us.