Lamentations 5

¹ Remember, LORD, what has come on us.

² Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

³ We are orphans and fatherless.

⁴ We must pay for water to drink.

⁵ Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

⁶ We have given our hands to the Egyptians,

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,

¹⁰ Our skin is black like an oven,

¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion,

¹² Princes were hanged up by their hands.

¹³ The young men carry millstones.

¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate,

¹⁵ The joy of our heart has ceased.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint.

¹⁸ for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.

¹⁹ You, LORD, remain forever.

²⁰ Why do you forget us forever,

²¹ Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned.

²² But you have utterly rejected us.