Lamentations 5

¹ Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and see our disgrace!

² Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to foreigners.

³We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.

⁴We must pay for the water we drink;
the wood we get must be bought.

⁵ Our pursuers are at our necks;
we are weary; we are given no rest.

⁶We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,
to get bread enough.

⁷Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
and we bear their iniquities.

⁸ Slaves rule over us;
there is none to deliver us from their hand.

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

¹⁰ Our skin is hot as an oven
with the burning heat of famine.

¹¹Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.

¹² Princes are hung up by their hands;
no respect is shown to the elders.

¹³Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,
and boys stagger under loads of wood.

¹⁴ The old men have left the city gate,
the young men their music.

¹⁵ The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.

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

¹⁷For this our heart has become sick,
for these things our eyes have grown dim,

¹⁸for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
jackals prowl over it.

¹⁹ But you, O Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures to all generations.

²⁰ Why do you forget us forever,
why do you forsake us for so many days?

²¹ Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored!
Renew our days as of old—

²² unless you have utterly rejected us,
and you remain exceedingly angry with us.

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