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Lamentations 5

¹O LORD, remember what has come upon us; Look, and see our reproach (national disgrace)!

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

³We have become orphans without a father; Our mothers are like widows.

⁴We have to pay for our drinking water; Our wood comes to us at a price.

⁵Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

⁶We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

⁷Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is[1] we who have carried their sin.

⁸Servants rule over us; There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.

⁹We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].

¹⁰Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

¹³Young men worked at the grinding mill, And boys fell [staggering] under loads of wood.

¹⁴Elders are gone from the gate; Young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our hearts has ended; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is covered with dust]! Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim.

¹⁸As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, Foxes and the jackals prowl over it.

¹⁹But You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to [all] generations.

²⁰Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

²¹Return us to You, O LORD, so that we may be restored; Renew our days as of old,

²²Unless You have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly angry with us.