5Lamentations 5

1Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.Select Lamentations 5:1

2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.Select Lamentations 5:2

3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.Select Lamentations 5:3

4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.Select Lamentations 5:4

5Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.Select Lamentations 5:5

6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.Select Lamentations 5:6

7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.Select Lamentations 5:7

8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8

9We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.Select Lamentations 5:9

10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.Select Lamentations 5:10

11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.Select Lamentations 5:11

12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.Select Lamentations 5:12

13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.Select Lamentations 5:13

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

15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.Select Lamentations 5:15

16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!Select Lamentations 5:16

17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.Select Lamentations 5:17

18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.Select Lamentations 5:18

19You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.Select Lamentations 5:19

20Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?Select Lamentations 5:20

21Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.Select Lamentations 5:21

22But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.Select Lamentations 5:22