5:1 Remember, Adonai, what has come upon us. Look, and see our disgrace!
5:2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
5:3 We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows.
5:4 We pay silver for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5:5 Our pursuers are at our necks. We are weary and have no rest.
5:6 We have held out our hand to Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with bread.
5:7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
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 desert.
5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven due to fever from famine.
5:11 The women in Zion have been ravished, maidens in the towns of Judah.
5:12 Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are dishonored.
5:13 Young men toil at the millstone. Boys stagger under loads of wood.
5:14 Elders are gone from the gate, young men from their music.
5:15 Joy has ceased in our hearts. Our dance has turned into mourning.
5:16 The crown has fallen from our head. Oy to us, for we have sinned!
5:17 Because of this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim,
5:18 for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, as jackals prowl over it.
5:19 You, Adonai, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
5:20 Why do You always forget us and forsake us for so long?
5:21 Bring us back to You, Adonai, and we will return. Renew our days as of old—
5:22 unless You have utterly rejected us and are exceedingly angry with us.
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