Lamentations Chapter 5

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

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

3We are fatherless, even without father, and our mothers are as widows.

4We have drunk our water for money, and our wood is sold unto us.

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

6We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

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

8Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands.

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

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

11They defiled the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12The princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of the Elders were not had in honor.

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

14The Elders have ceased from the gate and the young men from their songs.

15The joy of our heart is gone, our dance is turned into mourning.

16The crown of our head is fallen: woe now unto us, that we have sinned.

17Therefore our heart is heavy for these things, our eyes are dim,

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

19But thou, O Lord, remainest forever: thy throne is from generation to generation.

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

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

22But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou art exceedingly angry against us.