Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!

2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.

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

Our water we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.

5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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

Our fathers sinned; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.

8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Princes were hanged up by their hand; The faces of the elders were not honored.

13 The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.

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

The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

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;

For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;

18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.

19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?

Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!

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

For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?