LITV - Lamentations - 5

5:1  O Jehovah, remember what has been to us; look upon and see our shame.

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

5:3  We are orphans. There is no father; our mothers are like widows.

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

5:5  We are pursued; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.

5:6  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, to the Assyrian, in order to be satisfied with bread.

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

5:8  Slaves rule over us; there is no rescuer from their hand.

5:9  We bring in our bread with our souls, from the face of the sword of the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin is burned black like an oven, because of the fever heat of famine.

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

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

5:13  They lifted the young men to the hand mill, and the youths stumbled at the 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 to mourning.

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

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

5:18  Zion is laid waste on the mountain; foxes walk about on it.

5:19  O Jehovah, You remain forever; Your throne to generation and generation.

5:20  Why do You forget us forever, forsake us the length of days?

5:21  Return us to You, O Jehovah, and we shall return. Renew our days as of old,

5:22  unless You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry against us.