Lamentations 5

5^aRemember, O Lord, what is come upon us:

^cConsider, and ^bbehold ^acour reproach.

^2dOur inheritance is turned to strangers,

Our houses to aliens.

³We are orphans and fatherless,

Our mothers are as widows.

⁴We have drunken our water for money;

Our wood ^†is sold unto us.

^5†Our necks are under persecution:

^fWe labour, and have no rest.

^6gWe have given the hand ^hto the Egyptians,

And ^hto the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

^7ikOur fathers have sinned, and ^klare not;

And ⁱwe have borne their iniquities.

^8mServants have ruled over us:

There is none that doth ⁿdeliver us out of their hand.

⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives

Because of the sword of the wilderness.

^10oOur skin was black like an oven

Because of the ^||terrible famine.

^11pqThey ravished the women in Zion,

And ^qthe maids in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes are hanged up by their hand:

The faces of ^relders ^swere not honoured.

¹³They took the young men ^ssto grind,

And the children ^tfell under the wood.

^14rThe elders have ceased from the gate,

The young men from ^tttheir musick.

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased;

^uOur dance ^vis turned into mourning.

^16w†The crown is fallen from our head:

Woe unto us, that we have sinned!

¹⁷For this ^xour heart is faint;

For these things ^your eyes are dim.

¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, ^yywhich is desolate,

^zThe foxes walk upon it.

^19aThou, O Lord, remainest for ever;

^bThy throne from generation to generation.

^20cWherefore dost thou forget us for ever,

And forsake us ^†so long time?

^21dTurn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned;

^eRenew our days as of old.

^22||But ^fthou hast utterly rejected us;

Thou art very wroth against us.