Lamentations 5 — WEBC

5Verse 1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.Look, and see our reproach.^{Verse 2}Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our houses to aliens.^{Verse 3}We are orphans and fatherless.Our mothers are as widows.^{Verse 4}We must pay for water to drink.Our wood is sold to us.^{Verse 5}Our pursuers are on our necks.We are weary, and have no rest.^{Verse 6}We have given our hands to the Egyptians,and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.^{Verse 7}Our fathers sinned, and are no more.We have borne their iniquities.^{Verse 8}Servants rule over us.There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.^{Verse 9}We get our bread at the peril of our lives,because of the sword in the wilderness.^{Verse 10}Our skin is black like an oven,because of the burning heat of famine.^{Verse 11}They ravished the women in Zion,the virgins in the cities of Judah.^{Verse 12}Princes were hanged up by their hands.The faces of elders were not honored.^{Verse 13}The young men carry millstones.The children stumbled under loads of wood.^{Verse 14}The elders have ceased from the gate,and the young men from their music.^{Verse 15}The joy of our heart has ceased.Our dance is turned into mourning.^{Verse 16}The crown has fallen from our head.Woe to us, for we have sinned!^{Verse 17}For this our heart is faint.For these things our eyes are dim:^{Verse 18}for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.The foxes walk on it.^{Verse 19}You, Yahweh, remain forever.Your throne is from generation to generation.^{Verse 20}Why do you forget us forever,and forsake us for so long a time?^{Verse 21}Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned.Renew our days as of old.^{Verse 22}But you have utterly rejected us.You are very angry against us.