Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.🔗🔍
²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.🔗🔍
³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.🔗🔍
⁴We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.🔗🔍
⁵Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.🔗🔍
⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.🔗🔍
⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.🔗🔍
⁸Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.🔗🔍
⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.🔗🔍
¹⁰Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.🔗🔍
¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.🔗🔍
¹²Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.🔗🔍
¹³They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.🔗🔍
¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.🔗🔍
¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.🔗🔍
¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!🔗🔍
¹⁷For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.🔗🔍
¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.🔗🔍
¹⁹Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.🔗🔍
²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?🔗🔍
²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.🔗🔍
²²But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.🔗🔍