5Lamentations 5

1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see 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 pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.Select Lamentations 5:5

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

7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.Select Lamentations 5:7

8Servants rule over us: There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8

9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.Select Lamentations 5:9

10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.Select Lamentations 5:10

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

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

13The young men bare the mill; The children 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 to 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 on it.Select Lamentations 5:18

19You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.Select Lamentations 5:19

20Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?Select Lamentations 5:20

21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.Select Lamentations 5:21

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