1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace. NHEB — Lamentations 5:1
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. NHEB — Lamentations 5:2
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows. NHEB — Lamentations 5:3
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us. NHEB — Lamentations 5:4
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest. NHEB — Lamentations 5:5
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread. NHEB — Lamentations 5:6
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities. NHEB — Lamentations 5:7
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. NHEB — Lamentations 5:8
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. NHEB — Lamentations 5:9
10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine. NHEB — Lamentations 5:10
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah. NHEB — Lamentations 5:11
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect. NHEB — Lamentations 5:12
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood. NHEB — Lamentations 5:13
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music. NHEB — Lamentations 5:14
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning. NHEB — Lamentations 5:15
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned. NHEB — Lamentations 5:16
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim. NHEB — Lamentations 5:17
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it. NHEB — Lamentations 5:18
19 But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation. NHEB — Lamentations 5:19
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long? NHEB — Lamentations 5:20
21 Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times, NHEB — Lamentations 5:21
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. NHEB — Lamentations 5:22