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