5Lamentations 5

1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.Select Lamentations 5:1

2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.Select Lamentations 5:2

3Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers are as widows.Select Lamentations 5:3

4Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.Select Lamentations 5:4

5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured--there hath been no rest for us.Select Lamentations 5:5

6To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.Select Lamentations 5:6

7Our fathers have sinned--they are not, We their iniquities have borne.Select Lamentations 5:7

8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.Select Lamentations 5:8

9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.Select Lamentations 5:9

10Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.Select Lamentations 5:10

11Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins--in cities of Judah.Select Lamentations 5:11

12Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.Select Lamentations 5:12

13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.Select Lamentations 5:13

14The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.Select Lamentations 5:14

15Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.Select Lamentations 5:15

16Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.Select Lamentations 5:16

17For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.Select Lamentations 5:17

18For the mount of Zion--that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.Select Lamentations 5:18

19Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.Select Lamentations 5:19

20Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!Select Lamentations 5:20

21Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.Select Lamentations 5:21

22For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us--exceedingly?Select Lamentations 5:22