Lamentations 5

1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.● 2Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.● 3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.● 4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.● 5We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.● 6We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.● 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.● 8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.● 9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.● 10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.● 11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.● 12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.● 13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.● 14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.● 15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.● 16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.● 17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.● 18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.● 19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.● 20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?● 21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.● 22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.●