Lamentations Chapter 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9: We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. edit

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

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

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

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

14: The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. edit

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

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

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

18: Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. edit

19: Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. edit

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

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

22: But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. edit