Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5

¹Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us:

Look, and see our reproach.

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers,

Our houses to aliens.

³We are orphans and fatherless;

Our mothers are as widows.

⁴We have drunken our water for money;

Our wood is sold to us.

⁵Our pursuers are on our necks:

We are weary, and have no rest.

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians,

To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers sinned, and are no more;

We have borne their iniquities.

⁸Servants rule over us:

There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives,

Because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven,

Because of the burning heat of famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion,

The virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand:

The faces of elders were not honored.

¹³The young men bare the mill;

The children stumbled under the wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate,

The young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased;

Our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head:

Woe to us! for we have sinned.

¹⁷For this our heart is faint;

For these things our eyes are dim;

¹⁸For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:

The foxes walk on it.

¹⁹You, Yahweh, remain forever;

Your throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰Why do you forget us forever,

And forsake us so long time?

²¹Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned.

Renew our days as of old.

²²But you have utterly rejected us;

You are very angry against us.