【Lamentations】Chapter 5 << Last Chapter

5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us, look, and see our disgrace:

5:2 Our inherited lands have been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

5:3 We have become orphans, fatherless; widowed are our mothers.

5:4 The water we drink we must buy, for our own wood we must pay.

5:5 On our necks is the yoke of those who drive us; we are worn out, but allowed no rest.

5:6 To Egypt we submitted, and to Assyria, to fill our need of bread.

5:7 Our fathers, who sinned, are no more; but we bear their guilt.

5:8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their hands.

5:9 At the peril of our lives we bring in our sustenance, in the face of the desert heat;

5:10 Our skin is shriveled up, as though by a furnace, with the searing blasts of famine.

5:11 The wives in Zion were ravished by the enemy, the maidens in the cities of Judah;

5:12 Princes were gibbeted by them, elders shown no respect.

5:13 The youths carry the millstones, boys stagger under their loads of wood;

5:14 The old men have abandoned the gate, the young men their music.

5:15 The joy of our hearts has ceased, our dance has turned into mourning;

5:16 The garlands have fallen from our heads: woe to us, for we have sinned!

5:17 Over this our hearts are sick, at this our eyes grow dim:

5:18 That Mount Zion should be desolate, with jackals roaming there!

5:19 You, O LORD, are enthroned forever; your throne stands from age to age.

5:20 Why, then, should you forget us, abandon us so long a time?

5:21 Lead us back to you, O LORD, that we may be restored: give us anew such days as we had of old.

5:22 For now you have indeed rejected us, and in full measure turned your wrath against us.

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