RLT - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Yhwh, what is come upon us: consider, and behold 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  We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5:5  Our necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

5:8  Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

5:9  We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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

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

5:13  They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

5:14  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

5:15  The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

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

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

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

5:19  Thou, O Yhwh, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

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

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

5:22  But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.