lam 5:1

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

lam 5:2

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

lam 5:3

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

lam 5:4

  We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

lam 5:5

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

lam 5:6

  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

lam 5:7

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

lam 5:8

  Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

lam 5:9

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

lam 5:10

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

lam 5:11

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

lam 5:12

  Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

lam 5:13

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

lam 5:14

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

lam 5:15

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

lam 5:16

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

lam 5:17

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

lam 5:18

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

lam 5:19

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

lam 5:20

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

lam 5:21

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

lam 5:22

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