Geneva1599 - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.

5:2  Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.

5:3  We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

5:4  Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.

5:5  Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.

5:6  We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

5:7  Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.

5:8  Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

5:9  Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

5:10  Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.

5:11  They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.

5:12  The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.

5:13  They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.

5:14  The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.

5:15  The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.

5:16  The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.

5:17  Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,

5:18  Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.

5:19  But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.

5:20  Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?

5:21  Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.

5:22  But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.