Lamentations 5

1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.● 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.● 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows.● 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}● 5Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}● 6We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.● 7Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.● 8Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.● 9We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.● 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}● 11They ravished the women in Zion, {and} the maids in the cities of Judah.● 12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.● 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.● 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.● 15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.● 16The crown is fallen {from} our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! {The...: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen}● 17For this our heart is faint; for these {things} our eyes are dim.● 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.● 19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.● 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, {and} forsake us so long time? {so...: Heb. for length of days?}● 21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.● 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. {But...: or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?}●