Lamentations 5
1. Remember * , O LORD, what is come upon us: consider * , and behold * our reproach.
2. Our inheritance is turned * to strangers * , our houses to 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 necks are under persecution * : we labour * , 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 have ruled * over us: there is none that doth deliver * us out of their hand.
9. We gat * our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10. Our skin was black * like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11. They ravished * the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12. Princes are hanged up * by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured * .
13. They took * the young men to grind, and the children fell * under the wood.
14. The elders have ceased * from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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, that we have sinned * !
17. For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim * .
18. Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate * , the foxes walk * upon it.
19. Thou, O LORD, remainest * for ever; thy throne 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.
