Lamentations 5
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1O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. 1Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!
2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. 3We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. 4We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
5We are pursued--they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest. 5Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.
6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. 6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment. 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power. 8Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger. 10Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. 11Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. 12Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor. 13Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. 14The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.
15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning. 15The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
17Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears. 17For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate. 18for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. 19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long? 20Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days?
21Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before, 21Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old—
22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. 22unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.
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