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5:1  Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; look, and see our reproach!
5:2  Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
5:3  We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
5:4  We must pay for the water we drink; our wood is sold to us.
5:5  Our pursuers are at our necks; we labor and have no rest.
5:6  We have given our hand to Egypt and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
5:7  Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their iniquities.
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 wilderness.
5:10  Our skin is hot as an oven, because of the terrible famine.
5:11  They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
5:12  Princes were hung up by their hands, the faces of elders were not honored.
5:13  Young men ground at the millstones; boys staggered under loads of wood.
5:14  The elders have left the city gate, the young men stopped their music.
5:15  The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has turned into mourning.
5:16  The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
5:17  For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim;
5:18  because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, with foxes walking upon it.
5:19  You, O Lord, remain forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
5:20  Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
5:21  Restore us to Yourself, O Lord, that we may return! Renew our days as of old,
5:22  unless You have utterly rejected us, and are very angry with us.