5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5:5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.
5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
5:8 Servants rule over us: there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
5:9 We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:10 Our skin is black like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
5:13 The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.
5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us! for we have sinned.
5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim;
5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk upon it.
5:19 Thou, O LORD, abidest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art very wroth against us.
Your support helps pay our hosting costs, and
- with a little bit extra -
lets us pay transcribers and proofreaders.
If you can help, Click here to become a Patreon:
www.patreon.com/IslamAwakened Thank you!