Lamentations - Chapter 5 - King James 2000
- Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- We have drunk our water at a price; our wood is sold unto us.
- Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
- We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
- We got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
- Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.
- Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored.
- They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
- The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
- The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.
- The crown has fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
- For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
- Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
- You, O LORD, remain forever; your throne from generation to generation.
- Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
- Turn us back to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
- But you have utterly rejected us; you are very angry against us.