Lamentations 5
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v1
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
v2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
v3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
v4
We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
v5
Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
v6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
v7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
v8
Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
v9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
v10
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
v11
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
v12
Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
v13
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
v14
The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
v15
The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
v16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
v17
For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
v18
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
v19
You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
v20
Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
v21
Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
v22
But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.