Lamentations 5

¹ Remember, O what is LORD, come upon us: behold, and see our reproach.

² Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.

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

⁴ We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.

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

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

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

⁹ We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

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

¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.

¹² Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

¹³ The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.

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

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

¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us! for we have sinned.

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

¹⁸ For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk upon it.

¹⁹ Thou, O LORD, abidest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

²¹ Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

²² But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art very wroth against us.