AFV2020 - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; look down and see our reproach.

5:2  Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, our houses to foreigners.

5:3  We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as widows.

5:4  We have drunk our water for money; our wood comes for a price.

5:5  Our pursuers are at our necks; we grow weary; no rest is given to us.

5:6  We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

5:7  Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities.

5:8  Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.

5:9  We bring in our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.

5:11  They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

5:12  Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored.

5:13  They took the young men to grind, and the children have stumbled under the loads of wood.

5:14  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

5:15  The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.

5:16  The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned.

5:17  Our heart is faint for this; our eyes are dim for these things.

5:18  Because the mountain of Zion lies desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

5:19  You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

5:20  Why do You forget us forever and forsake us for so long a time?

5:21  Return us to You, O LORD, and we will return; renew our days as of old,

5:22  Unless You have utterly rejected us, and are exceedingly angry against us!