5Lamentations 5

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

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

3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.Select Lamentations 5:3

4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.Select Lamentations 5:4

5We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.Select Lamentations 5:5

6We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might 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 was none to redeem us out of their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8

9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.Select Lamentations 5:9

10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.Select Lamentations 5:10

11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.Select Lamentations 5:11

12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.Select Lamentations 5:12

13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.Select Lamentations 5:13

14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.Select Lamentations 5:14

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

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

17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.Select Lamentations 5:17

18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.Select Lamentations 5:18

19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.Select Lamentations 5:19

20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?Select Lamentations 5:20

21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.Select Lamentations 5:21

22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.Select Lamentations 5:22