ACV - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.

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

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

5:4  We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.

5:5  Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

5:6  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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

5:8  Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

5:9  We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

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

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

5:12  Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.

5:13  The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.

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

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

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

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

5:18  for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.

5:19  Thou, O Jehovah, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.

5:20  Why do thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?

5:21  Turn thou us back to thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.

5:22  But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.