5:1 Remember, Lord, what has happened to us, pay attention, and see our disgrace:
5:2 Our heritage is turned over to strangers, our homes, to foreigners.
5:3 We have become orphans, without fathers; our mothers are like widows.
5:4 We pay money to drink our own water, our own wood comes at a price.
5:5 With a yoke on our necks, we are driven; we are worn out, but allowed no rest.
5:6 We extended a hand to Egypt and Assyria, to satisfy our need of bread.
5:7 Our ancestors, who sinned, are no more; but now we bear their guilt.
5:8 Servants rule over us, with no one to tear us from their hands.
5:9 We risk our lives just to get bread, exposed to the desert heat;
5:10 Our skin heats up like an oven, from the searing blasts of famine.
5:11 Women are raped in Zion, young women in the cities of Judah;
5:12 Princes have been hanged by them, elders shown no respect.
5:13 Young men carry millstones, boys stagger under loads of wood;
5:14 The elders have abandoned the gate, the young men their music.
5:15 The joy of our hearts has ceased, dancing has turned into mourning;
5:16 The crown has fallen from our head: woe to us that we sinned!
5:17 Because of this our hearts grow sick, at this our eyes grow dim:
5:18 Because of Mount Zion, lying desolate, and the jackals roaming there!
5:19 But you, Lord, are enthroned forever; your throne stands from age to age.
5:20 Why have you utterly forgotten us, forsaken us for so long?
5:21 Bring us back to you, Lord, that we may return: renew our days as of old.
5:22 For now you have indeed rejected us and utterly turned your wrath against us.
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