Lamentations 5
1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: 1 Consider, and behold our reproach. 1
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, 1 Our houses to aliens. 1
3We are orphans and fatherless, 1 Our mothers are as widows. 1
4We have drunken our water for money; 1 Our wood is sold unto us. 1
5Our necks are under persecution: 1 We labour, and have no rest. 1
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, 1 And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 1
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; 1 And we have borne their iniquities. 1
8Servants have ruled over us: 1 There is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. 1
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives 1 Because of the sword of the wilderness. 1
10Our skin was black like an oven 1 Because of the terrible famine. 1
11They ravished the women in Zion, 1 And the maids in the cities of Judah. 1
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: 1 The faces of elders were not honoured. 1
13They took the young men to grind, 1 And the children fell under the wood. 1
14The elders have ceased from the gate, 1 The young men from their musick. 1
15The joy of our heart is ceased; 1 Our dance is turned into mourning. 1
16The crown is fallen from our head: 1 Woe unto us, that we have sinned! 1
17For this our heart is faint; 1 For these things our eyes are dim. 1
18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, 1 The foxes walk upon it. 1
19Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; 1 Thy throne from generation to generation. 1
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, 1 And forsake us so long time? 1
21Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; 1 Renew our days as of old. 1
22But thou hast utterly rejected us; 1 Thou art very wroth against us.