Lamentations Capítulo 5

5 : 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us. Behold, and see 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 pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, 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 sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.

5 : 8 Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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

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

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

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

5 : 13 The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled 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 has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.

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

5 : 18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.

5 : 19 Thou, O Jehovah, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.

5 : 20 Why do thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?

5 : 21 Turn thou us back to thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.

5 : 22 But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.