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