Lamentations 5 — GNV

5Verse 1Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.^{Verse 2}Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.^{Verse 3}We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.^{Verse 4}Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.^{Verse 5}Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.^{Verse 6}We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.^{Verse 7}Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.^{Verse 8}Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.^{Verse 9}Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.^{Verse 10}Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.^{Verse 11}They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.^{Verse 12}The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.^{Verse 13}They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.^{Verse 14}The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.^{Verse 15}The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.^{Verse 16}The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.^{Verse 17}Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,^{Verse 18}Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.^{Verse 19}But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.^{Verse 20}Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?^{Verse 21}Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.^{Verse 22}But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.