1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. ASV — Lamentations 5:1
2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. ASV — Lamentations 5:2
3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. ASV — Lamentations 5:3
4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. ASV — Lamentations 5:4
5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. ASV — Lamentations 5:5
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ASV — Lamentations 5:6
7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. ASV — Lamentations 5:7
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. ASV — Lamentations 5:8
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. ASV — Lamentations 5:9
10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. ASV — Lamentations 5:10
11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. ASV — Lamentations 5:11
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. ASV — Lamentations 5:12
13 The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. ASV — Lamentations 5:13
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. ASV — Lamentations 5:14
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. ASV — Lamentations 5:15
16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. ASV — Lamentations 5:16
17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; ASV — Lamentations 5:17
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it. ASV — Lamentations 5:18
19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. ASV — Lamentations 5:19
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time? ASV — Lamentations 5:20
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. ASV — Lamentations 5:21
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us. ASV — Lamentations 5:22