Lamentations Chapter 5

5 : 1 Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.

5 : 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

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

5 : 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

5 : 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.

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

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

5 : 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.

5 : 9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

5 : 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

5 : 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

5 : 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

5 : 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

5 : 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

5 : 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

5 : 16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!

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

5 : 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.

5 : 19 You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.

5 : 20 Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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

5 : 22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.