5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace! |
5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens. |
5:3 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. |
5:4 We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought. |
5:5 With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest. |
5:6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. |
5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. |
5:8 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. |
5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. |
5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. |
5:11 Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. |
5:12 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. |
5:13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood. |
5:14 The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music. |
5:15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. |
5:16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! |
5:17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, |
5:18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. |
5:19 But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations. |
5:20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us? |
5:21 Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old! |
5:22 Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us? |