5:1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, 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 made a pact with Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
5:7 Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.
5:8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one 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 black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.
5:11 Women are raped in Zion, young women 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, and boys stagger under loads of wood.
5:14 The old men have left 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 Because of this our hearts are sick; because of these things our eyes have grown dim:
5:18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
5:19 But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
5:20 Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you forsaken us these many days?
5:21 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored; renew our days as of old—
5:22 unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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