Chapter 5

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

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

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  We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.  

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  We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.  

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  Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.  

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  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to 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 is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.  

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  We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.  

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  Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.  

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  They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.  

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  Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.  

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  They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.  

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  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.  

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  The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.  

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  The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!  

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  For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.  

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  Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.  

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  Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.  

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  Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?  

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  Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.  

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  But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.  

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