Lamentations 5

1 Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *QK) and see reproach our.

2 Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.

3 Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *QK) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.

4 Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.

5 At neck our we have been pursued we have become weary (and not *QK) it has been given rest to us.

6 Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.

7 Ancestors our they sinned (and not [are] they and we *QK) iniquities their we have borne.

8 Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.

9 With life our we bring bread our because of [the] sword of the wilderness.

10 Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.

11 Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.

12 Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.

13 Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.

14 Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.

15 It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.

16 It has fallen [the] crown of head our woe! please to us for we have sinned.

17 On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.

18 On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.

19 You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.

20 Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.

21 Cause to return us O Yahweh - to yourself (so let us return *QK) renew days our like ancient time.

22 That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.