Lamentations 5 — ILT
5Verse 1Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.Verse 2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.Verse 3Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.Verse 4Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.Verse 5Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.Verse 6To Egypt do we stretch out our hand, to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.Verse 7Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.Verse 8Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.Verse 9At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.Verse 10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.Verse 11Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.Verse 12Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.Verse 13Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled under the wood.Verse 14The elders have ceased from the gate, young men, from their singing.Verse 15Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.Verse 16Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.Verse 17Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;Verse 18Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.Verse 19O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.Verse 20Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?Verse 21Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old.Verse 22For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?