Lamentations 5

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1. 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Look at us and see our disgrace.
2. 2Our land has been handed over to strangers, and foreigners live in our homes.
3. 3We are orphans without fathers. Our mothers are like widows.
4. 4We have to pay money for our own water. Even our firewood comes at a price.
5. 5Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.
6. 6We surrendered to Egypt and Assyria just to get enough bread to survive.
7. 7Our fathers sinned and are no longer here; we have borne their iniquities.
8. 8Slaves rule over us now, and there is no one to rescue us from their grip.
9. 9We risk our lives to get our food because of the sword in the wilderness.
10. 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11. 11They violated the women in Zion and the young girls throughout the cities of Judah.
12. 12Princes were hung up by their hands. Elders were shown no respect.
13. 13Young men were forced to grind at millstones, and children staggered under heavy loads of wood.
14. 14The elders no longer sit at the city gate, and the young men have stopped playing their music.
15. 15The joy of our heart has ended; our dancing has turned into mourning.
16. 16The crown has fallen from our head. How terrible for us — we have sinned!
17. 17Because of all this, our hearts are weak; because of these things, our eyes are dim.
18. 18Because Mount Zion is desolate, foxes roam freely upon it.
19. 19But you, LORD, reign forever. Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20. 20Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you abandoned us for so long?
21. 21Bring us back to you, O LORD, and we will return; renew our days as they were in the past.
22. 22But you have completely rejected us; you are very angry with us.