DRC - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

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

5:3  We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

5:4  We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

5:5  We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.

5:6  We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.

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

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

5:9  We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

5:10  Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

5:11  They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

5:12  The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

5:13  They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

5:14  The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

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

5:16  The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

5:17  Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

5:18  For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

5:19  But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.

5:20  Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

5:21  Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

5:22  But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.