5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; look down and see our reproach. |
5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, our houses to foreigners. |
5:3 We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as widows. |
5:4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood comes for a price. |
5:5 Our pursuers are at our necks; we grow weary; no rest is given to us. |
5:6 We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread. |
5:7 Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities. |
5:8 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand. |
5:9 We bring in our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. |
5:10 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine. |
5:11 They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. |
5:12 Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored. |
5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children have stumbled under the loads of wood. |
5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, 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 now to us! For we have sinned. |
5:17 Our heart is faint for this; our eyes are dim for these things. |
5:18 Because the mountain of Zion lies desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
5:19 You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. |
5:20 Why do You forget us forever and forsake us for so long a time? |
5:21 Return us to You, O LORD, and we will return; renew our days as of old, |
5:22 Unless You have utterly rejected us, and are exceedingly angry against us! |