AB - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

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

5:3  We have become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

5:4  We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck.

5:5  We have been persecuted, we have labored, we have had no rest.

5:6  Egypt gave the hand to us, Assyria to their own satisfaction.

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

5:8  Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.

5:9  We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

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

5:12  Princes were hanged up by their hands; the elders were not honored.

5:13  The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

5:14  And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

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

5:16  The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! For we have sinned.

5:17  For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

5:18  Over the mountain of Zion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

5:19  But You, O Lord, shall dwell forever; Your throne shall endure from generation to generation.

5:20  Why will You utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

5:21  Turn us to You, O Lord, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

5:22  For You have indeed rejected us; You have been very angry with us.