Lamentations - Chapter 5 - A Conservative Version
- Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.
- Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
- We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
- Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
- We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.
- Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
- They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.
- The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.
- The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
- The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.
- The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.
- For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,
- for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.
- Thou, O LORD, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.
- Why do thou forget us forever, [and] forsake us so long time?
- Turn thou us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.
- But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.