The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Chapter 5

American Standard Version

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