1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach. DBY — Lamentations 5:1
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. DBY — Lamentations 5:2
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. DBY — Lamentations 5:3
4 Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price. DBY — Lamentations 5:4
5 Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest. DBY — Lamentations 5:5
6 We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. DBY — Lamentations 5:6
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities. DBY — Lamentations 5:7
8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. DBY — Lamentations 5:8
9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. DBY — Lamentations 5:9
10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. DBY — Lamentations 5:10
11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah. DBY — Lamentations 5:11
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured. DBY — Lamentations 5:12
13 The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood. DBY — Lamentations 5:13
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. DBY — Lamentations 5:14
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. DBY — Lamentations 5:15
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned! DBY — Lamentations 5:16
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, DBY — Lamentations 5:17
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it. DBY — Lamentations 5:18
19 Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation. DBY — Lamentations 5:19
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time? DBY — Lamentations 5:20
21 Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. DBY — Lamentations 5:21
22 Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us? DBY — Lamentations 5:22