Chapter 5

  Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.  

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  Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.  

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  We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.  

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  We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.  

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  We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.  

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  We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.  

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  Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.  

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  Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.  

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  We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.  

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  Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.  

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  They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.  

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  The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.  

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  They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.  

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  The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.  

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  The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.  

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  The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.  

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  Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,  

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  For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.  

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  But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.  

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  Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?  

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  Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.  

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  But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.  

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