1 LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame! ISV — Lamentations 5:1
2 Our inheritance has a5:2 Or possessions have been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners. ISV — Lamentations 5:2
3 We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows. ISV — Lamentations 5:3
4 We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. ISV — Lamentations 5:4
5 Our pursuers breathe down b5:5 Lit. pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us. ISV — Lamentations 5:5
6 We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food. c5:6 Lit. Assyrians, being satisfied with bread ISV — Lamentations 5:6
7 Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin. ISV — Lamentations 5:7
8 Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control. d5:8 Lit. hand ISV — Lamentations 5:8
9 We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death e5:9 Lit. facing the sword in the desert. ISV — Lamentations 5:9
10 Our skin blisters f5:10 Lit. blackens as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. ISV — Lamentations 5:10
11 They have raped women in Zion, young women g5:11 Lit. the virgins in the towns of Judah. ISV — Lamentations 5:11
12 Princes they have hung by their hands; elders h5:12 Lit. the faces of the elders they have disrespected. ISV — Lamentations 5:12
13 Our i5:13 The Heb. lacks Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our j5:13 The Heb. lacks our youths stumble under the weight of wood. ISV — Lamentations 5:13
14 Our k5:14 The Heb. lacks Our elders have ceased ruling l5:14 The Heb. lacks ruling at the gate; our m5:14 The Heb. lacks our young men have abandoned n5:14 The Heb. lacks have abandoned their music. ISV — Lamentations 5:14
15 The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges. ISV — Lamentations 5:15
16 The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned! ISV — Lamentations 5:16
17 This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim: ISV — Lamentations 5:17
18 Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it. ISV — Lamentations 5:18
19 You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation. ISV — Lamentations 5:19
20 So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long? ISV — Lamentations 5:20
21 Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before, ISV — Lamentations 5:21
22 unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit. ISV — Lamentations 5:22