BBE - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

5:2  Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

5:3  We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

5:4  We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

5:5  Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

5:6  We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

5:7  Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

5:8  Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

5:9  We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

5:10  Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

5:11  They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

5:12  Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

5:13  The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

5:14  The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

5:15  The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

5:16  The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

5:17  Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

5:18  Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.

5:19  You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.

5:20  Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

5:21  Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.

5:22  But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.