Lamentations 5

1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.

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

2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

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

3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.

We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.

Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.

6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.

We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.

Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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

Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.

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

We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

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

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

They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.

Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.

13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.

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

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

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

15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.

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

16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.

The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.

For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.

18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.

Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?

21 Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,

Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.

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