5Lamentations 5

CHAP. V. / A pitifull complaint of Zion, in prayer vnto God.

1Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider and beholde our reproch.Select Lamentations 5:1

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

3We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.Select Lamentations 5:3

4We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs.Select Lamentations 5:4

5Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.Select Lamentations 5:5

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

7Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities.Select Lamentations 5:7

8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8

9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.Select Lamentations 5:9

10Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.Select Lamentations 5:10

11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.Select Lamentations 5:11

12Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured.Select Lamentations 5:12

13They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.Select Lamentations 5:13

14The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke.Select Lamentations 5:14

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

16The crowne is fallen from our head: Woe vnto vs, that wee haue sinned.Select Lamentations 5:16

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

18Because of the mountaine of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walke vpon it.Select Lamentations 5:18

19Thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne from generation to generation.Select Lamentations 5:19

20Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?Select Lamentations 5:20

21Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our dayes as of old.Select Lamentations 5:21

22But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art very wroth against vs.Select Lamentations 5:22