5Lamentations 5

1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon 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 drank 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 doth deliver [us] out of their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8

9We procured 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 were hanged 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 hath 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 upon it.Select Lamentations 5:18

19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.Select Lamentations 5:19

20Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?Select Lamentations 5:20

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

22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.Select Lamentations 5:22