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