Lamentations
5
- Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us;
look, and see our disgrace.
- Our inheritance has been turned over to
aliens, our homes to foreigners.
- We have become orphans and fatherless, our
mothers like widows.
- We must buy the water we drink; our wood
can be had only at a price.
- Those who pursue us are at our heels; we
are weary and find no rest.
- We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get
enough bread.
- Our fathers sinned and are no more, and
we bear their punishment.
- Slaves rule over us, and there is none to
free us from their hands.
- We get our bread at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the desert.
- Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from
hunger.
- Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins
in the towns of Judah.
- Princes have been hung up by their hands;
elders are shown no respect.
- Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger
under loads of wood.
- The elders are gone from the city gate;
the young men have stopped their music.
- Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing
has turned to mourning.
- The crown has fallen from our head. Woe
to us, for we have sinned!
- Because of this our hearts are faint, because
of these things our eyes grow dim
- for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with
jackals prowling over it.
- You, O LORD, reign forever; your throne
endures from generation to generation.
- Why do you always forget us? Why do you
forsake us so long ?
- Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we
may return; renew our days as of old
- unless you have utterly rejected us and
are angry with us beyond measure.
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