LEB - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace!

5:2  Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners.

5:3  We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows.

5:4  ⌞We pay for water with money⌟, our wood comes to us at a price.

5:5  We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.

5:6  We have made a deal with Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with food.

5:7  Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.

5:8  Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.

5:9  ⌞We risk our life for food⌟ because of the sword of the desert.

5:10  Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine.

5:11  They raped women in Zion, young women in the cities of Judah.

5:12  They hang princes by their hand; they do not show respect before elders.

5:13  Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood.

5:14  Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments.

5:15  The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony.

5:16  The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

5:17  Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim.

5:18  Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, ⌞foxes tread on it⌟.

5:19  You, O Yahweh, will sit forever on your throne for generation to generation.

5:20  Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us ⌞for so long⌟?

5:21  Restore us to you, O Yahweh, that we will be restored; renew our days as of old.

5:22  Unless you have utterly rejected us, unless you are angry with us beyond measure.