Darby - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, 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  Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

5:5  Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

5:6  We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

5:7  Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

5:8  Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

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

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

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

5:12  Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

5:13  The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have 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 hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

5:16  The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

5:17  For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

5:18  Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

5:19  Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

5:20  Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?

5:21  Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

5:22  Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?