Noyes - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!

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

5:3  We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.

5:4  Our water we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.

5:5  With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, 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; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.

5:8  Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.

5:9  With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.

5:11  Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.

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

5:13  Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.

5:14  The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.

5:15  The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.

5:16  The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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

5:18  On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.

5:19  But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.

5:20  Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?

5:21  Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!

5:22  For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?