5Lamentations 5

1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.Select Lamentations 5:1

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

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

4We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.Select Lamentations 5:4

5To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.Select Lamentations 5:5

6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;Select Lamentations 5:6

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

8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8

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

10Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.Select Lamentations 5:10

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

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

13The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled 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 unto us! for we have sinned.Select Lamentations 5:16

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

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

19Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation.Select Lamentations 5:19

20Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?Select Lamentations 5:20

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

22Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!Select Lamentations 5:22