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5:1  Remember, Adonai, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
5:2  The land we possessed has been passed on to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
5:3  We have become fatherless orphans, our mothers now are widows.
5:4  We have to pay to drink our own water; we have to buy our own wood.
5:5  The yoke is on our necks; we are persecuted; we toil to exhaustion but are given no rest.
5:6  We made pacts with Egypt and Ashur to get enough food.
5:7  Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist; we bear the weight of their guilt.
5:8  We are ruled by slaves, and there is no one to save us from their power.
5:9  We get our food at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
5:10  Our skins are as black as a furnace because of the searing blasts of famine.
5:11  They have raped the women of Tziyon, virgins in the cities of Y’hudah.
5:12  Princes are hung up by their hands, leaders receive no respect.
5:13  Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, boys stagger under loads of wood.
5:14  The old men have deserted the city gate, the young men have given up their music.
5:15  Joy has vanished from our hearts, our dancing has turned into mourning.
5:16  The crown has fallen from our heads. Woe to us! for we have sinned.
5:17  This is why our hearts are sick; this is why our eyes grow dim —
5:18  it’s because of Mount Tziyon, so wasted that jackals have overrun it.
5:19  You, Adonai, reign forever; your throne endures through all generations.
5:20  Why do you never remember us? Why abandon us for so long a time?
5:21  Adonai, turn us back to you; and we will come back; renew our days, as they were in the past —
5:22  unless you have totally rejected us in a fury that knows no limits. [Adonai, turn us back to you; and we will come back; renew our days, as they were in the past.]