Lamentations 5 — DBY
5Verse 1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.Verse 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.Verse 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.Verse 4Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.Verse 5Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.Verse 6We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.Verse 7Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.Verse 8Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.Verse 9We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.Verse 10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.Verse 11They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.Verse 12Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.Verse 13The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.Verse 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.Verse 15The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.Verse 16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!Verse 17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,Verse 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.Verse 19Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.Verse 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?Verse 21Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.Verse 22Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?