5:1  Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us;
Look, and behold our reproach!

5:2  Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
And our houses to foreigners.

5:3  We have become orphans and waifs,
Our mothers are like widows.

5:4  We pay for the water we drink,
And our wood comes at a price.

5:5  They pursue at our heels;
We labor and have no rest.

5:6  We have given our hand to the Egyptians
And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

5:7  Our fathers sinned and are no more,
But we bear their iniquities.

5:8  Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.

5:9  We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.

5:11  They ravished the women in Zion,
The maidens in the cities of Judah.

5:12  Princes were hung up by their hands,
And elders were not respected.

5:13  Young men ground at the millstones;
Boys staggered under loads of wood.

5:14  The elders have ceased gathering at the gate,
And the young men from their music.

5:15  The joy of our heart has ceased;
Our dance has turned into mourning.

5:16  The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!

5:17  Because of this our heart is faint;
Because of these things our eyes grow dim;

5:18  Because of Mount Zion which is desolate,
With foxes walking about on it.

5:19  You, O LORD, remain forever;
Your throne from generation to generation.

5:20  Why do You forget us forever,
And forsake us for so long a time?

5:21  Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored;
Renew our days as of old,

5:22  Unless You have utterly rejected us,
And are very angry with us!