Lamentations 5

1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.● 2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.● 3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.● 4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.● 5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.● 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.● 7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.● 8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.● 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.● 10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.● 11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.● 12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.● 13The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.● 14The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.● 15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.● 16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.● 17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;● 18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.● 19Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.● 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, `And' forsake us so long time?● 21Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.● 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.●