Lamentations 5
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1Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach. 2Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers: 3we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows. 4We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck: 5we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest. 6Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction. 7Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities. 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand. 9We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine. 11They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda. 12Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured. 13The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood. 14And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music. 15The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 16The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned. 17For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened. 18Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein. 19But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation. 20Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time? 21Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before. 22For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.