| Chapter 5 |
1 | Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. |
2 | Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. |
3 | We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. |
4 | We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. |
5 | Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. |
6 | We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
7 | Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. |
8 | Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. |
9 | We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
10 | Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. |
11 | They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. |
12 | Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. |
13 | The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. |
14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. |
15 | The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. |
16 | The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. |
17 | For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; |
18 | For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it. |
19 | Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. |
20 | Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time? |
21 | Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. |
22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us. |