| Chapter 5 |
1 | Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. |
2 | Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. |
3 | We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows. |
4 | We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood. |
5 | We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us. |
6 | We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. |
7 | Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. |
8 | Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand. |
9 | We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. |
10 | Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine. |
11 | They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. |
12 | The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient. |
13 | They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood. |
14 | The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. |
15 | The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning. |
16 | The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned. |
17 | Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim, |
18 | For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it. |
19 | But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation. |
20 | Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? |
21 | Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning. |
22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us. |