Chapter 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 honoured .
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 .