5:1 Remember, O Lord, 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 thou, O Lord, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.
5:20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?
5:21 Restore us to thyself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
5:22 Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?
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