Wycliffe - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Lord, haue thou mynde what bifelle to vs; se thou, and biholde oure schenschipe.

5:2  Oure eritage is turned to aliens, oure housis ben turned to straungers.

5:3  We ben maad fadirles children with out fadir; oure modris ben as widewis.

5:4  We drunken oure watir for monei, we bouyten oure trees for siluer.

5:5  We weren dryuun bi oure heedis, and reste was not youun to feynt men.

5:6  We yauen hond to Egipt, and to Assiriens, that we schulden be fillid with breed.

5:7  Oure fadris synneden, and ben not, and we baren the wickidnessis of hem.

5:8  Seruauntis weren lordis of vs, and noon was, that ayenbouyte fro the hond of hem.

5:9  In oure lyues we brouyten breed to vs, fro the face of swerd in desert.

5:10  Oure skynne is brent as a furneis, of the face of tempestis of hungur.

5:11  Thei maden low wymmen in Sion, and virgyns in the citees of Juda.

5:12  Princes weren hangid bi the hond; thei weren not aschamed of the faces of elde men.

5:13  Thei mysusiden yonge wexynge men vnchastli, and children fellen doun in tree.

5:14  Elde men failiden fro yatis; yonge men failiden of the queer of singeris.

5:15  The ioie of oure herte failide; oure song is turned in to mourenyng.

5:16  The coroun of oure heed fellen doun; wo to vs! for we synneden.

5:17  Therfor oure herte is maad soreuful, therfor oure iyen ben maad derk.

5:18  For the hil of Sion, for it perischide; foxis yeden in it.

5:19  But thou, Lord, schal dwelle with outen ende; thi seete schal dwelle in generacioun and in to generacioun.

5:20  Whi schalt thou foryete vs with outen ende, schalt thou forsake vs in to lengthe of daies?

5:21  Lord, conuerte thou vs to thee, and we schal be conuertid; make thou newe oure daies, as at the bigynnyng.

5:22  But thou castynge awei hast cast awei vs; thou art wrooth ayens vs greetli.