CPDV - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.

5:2  Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.

5:3  We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.

5:4  We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.

5:5  We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.

5:6  We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.

5:7  Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.

5:8  Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.

5:9  We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.

5:11  They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.

5:12  The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.

5:13  They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.

5:14  The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.

5:15  The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.

5:16  The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.

5:17  Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:

5:18  because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.

5:19  But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.

5:20  Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?

5:21  Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.

5:22  But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.