5
1 Remember, LORD,
what has come
on us.
Look, and see
our reproach.
2 Our
inheritance has been
turned over to
strangers,
our houses to
aliens.
3 We are
orphans and
fatherless.
Our mothers are
as widows.
4 We must pay
for water to
drink.
Our wood is sold
to us.
5 Our
pursuers are on
our necks.
We are weary, and
have no rest.
6 We have
given our hands
to the Egyptians,
and to
the Assyrians, to
be satisfied with
bread.
7 Our fathers
sinned, and are no
more.
We have borne
their iniquities.
8 Servants
rule over us.
There is no one
to deliver us
out of their
hand.
9 We get
our bread at
the peril of our
lives,
because of the
sword in 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 hands.
The faces of
elders were
not honored.
13 The
young men
carry millstones.
The children
stumbled under loads
of wood.
14 The
elders have ceased
from the gate,
and the young men
from their music.
15 The
joy of our
heart has ceased.
Our dance is
turned into mourning.
16 The
crown has fallen
from our head.
Woe to 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
on it.
19 You,
LORD, remain
forever.
Your throne is
from generation to
generation.
20 Why
do you forget
us forever,
and forsake us
for so long
a time?
21 Turn
us to yourself,
LORD, and we
will be turned.
Renew our days
as of old.
22 But
you have utterly
rejected us.
You are very
angry against us.