Lamentaciones 5

¹ Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. ² Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. ³ We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. ⁴ We have drunken our water for money; is sold unto us. ⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. ⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. ⁸ Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. ⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of 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 hand: The faces of elders were not honored. ¹³ The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. ¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. ¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto 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: foxes walk upon it. ¹⁹ Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. ²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time? ²¹ Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. ²² __a__FOOTNOTE__a__ Lamentations 5:22 Or, Unless thou . . . and art etc. __b__FOOTNOTE__b__ But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.