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Lamentations

ESV

Chapter 5

1Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; look, and see our disgrace! 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. 3We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. 4We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes to us for a price. 5Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, we are given no rest. 6We have given the hand to Egypt and to Assyria, to get enough bread. 7Our fathers sinned and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. 8Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. 10Our skin is hot as an oven, with the burning heat of famine. 11Women are ravished in Zion, young women in the cities of Judah. 12Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. 13Young men are forced to grind, and boys stagger under loads of wood. 14The elders have left the city gate, the young men their music. 15The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has turned to mourning. 16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 17For this our heart is sick; for these things our eyes are dim; 18for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. 19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations. 20Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? 21Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old! 22Unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.