Lamentations - Chapter 5 | New International Version

  • 1. Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
  • 2. Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, our homes to foreigners.
  • 3. We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers like widows.
  • 4. We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
  • 5. Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
  • 6. We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
  • 7. Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
  • 8. Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.
  • 9. We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
  • 10. Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
  • 11. Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
  • 12. Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
  • 13. Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
  • 14. The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
  • 15. Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
  • 16. The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • 17. Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
  • 18. for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
  • 19. You, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
  • 20. Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
  • 21. Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old
  • 22. unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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