| 5 | Lamentations | ||
| 1 | Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace! | A prayer of mercy. Lm.5.1-22 | |
| 2 | Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens. | ||
| 3 | We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. | ||
| 4 | We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought. | ||
| 5 | With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest. | ||
| 6 | We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. | ||
| 7 | Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. | ||
| 8 | Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. | ||
| 9 | We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. | ||
| 10 | Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. | ||
| 11 | Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. | ||
| 12 | Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. | ||
| 13 | Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood. | ||
| 14 | The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music. | ||
| 15 | The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. | ||
| 16 | The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! | ||
| 17 | For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, | ||
| 18 | for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. | ||
| 19 | But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations. | ||
| 20 | Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us? | ||
| 21 | Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old! | ||
| 22 | Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us? | ||
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