| Lam. 5:1 |
Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us; / Look and see our reproach. |
| Lam. 5:2 |
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, / Our houses to foreigners. |
| Lam. 5:3 |
We are orphans without father; / Our mothers are like widows. |
| Lam. 5:4 |
We have drunk our water for money; / Our wood comes [to us] at a price. |
| Lam. 5:5 |
On our necks are our pursuers; / We are weary; we have no rest. |
| Lam. 5:6 |
We have given [our] hand to Egypt / And to Assyria, so as to be satisfied with bread. |
| Lam. 5:7 |
Our fathers sinned [and] they are not, / And we ourselves bear their iniquities. |
| Lam. 5:8 |
Slaves rule over us; / There is no one to deliver [us] from their hand. |
| Lam. 5:9 |
We get our bread at the risk of our lives / Because of the sword from the wilderness. |
| Lam. 5:10 |
Our skin is black like an oven / Because of the burning heat of famine. |
| Lam. 5:11 |
They have ravished the women in Zion, / The virgins in the cities of Judah. |
| Lam. 5:12 |
Princes were hanged by them. / The faces of the elders were not honored. |
| Lam. 5:13 |
The young men bore the mill, / And the young boys stumbled under the wood. |
| Lam. 5:14 |
The old men have ceased from the gate, / The young men from their music. |
| Lam. 5:15 |
The joy of our heart has ceased; / Our dance has been turned into mourning. |
| Lam. 5:16 |
The crown has fallen from our head. / Woe to us! For we have sinned. |
| Lam. 5:17 |
Because of this our heart is faint; / Because of these things our eyes are dim; |
| Lam. 5:18 |
Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate-- / Foxes rove in it. |
| Lam. 5:19 |
You, O Jehovah, abide forever; / Your throne is from generation to generation. |
| Lam. 5:20 |
Why do You forget us forever / And forsake us for so long a time? |
| Lam. 5:21 |
Turn us back to You, O Jehovah, and we will be turned; / Renew our days as before. |
| Lam. 5:22 |
Or have You utterly rejected us? / Are You exceedingly angry with us? |