Lamentations 5 — MSB

5Verse 1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!^{Verse 2}Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.^{Verse 3}We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.^{Verse 4}We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.^{Verse 5}We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.^{Verse 6}We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.^{Verse 7}Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.^{Verse 8}Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.^{Verse 9}We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.^{Verse 10}Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.^{Verse 11}Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.^{Verse 12}Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.^{Verse 13}Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.^{Verse 14}The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.^{Verse 15}Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.^{Verse 16}The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!^{Verse 17}Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—^{Verse 18}because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.^{Verse 19}You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.^{Verse 20}Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?^{Verse 21}Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,^{Verse 22}unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.