Lamentations 5

CHAPTER 5

O Yahweh, Remember Us!

¹Remember, O Yahweh, what has happened to us;

Look, and see our ^areproach!

²Our inheritance has been turned over to ^astrangers,

Our ^bhouses to foreigners.

³We have become orphans ^awithout a father;

Our mothers are like widows.

⁴We drink our ^awater by means of silver;

Our wood comes to us at a price.

⁵¹Our pursuers are at our necks;

We are worn out; there is ^ano rest for us.

⁶We have given over our ¹hands to ^aEgypt and Assyria ²to get enough bread.

⁷Our ^afathers sinned; they are no more;

It is we who have borne their iniquities.

^8aSlaves rule over us;

There is ^bno one to tear us away from their hand.

⁹We get our bread ¹at the ^arisk of our lives

²Because of the sword in the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin has become as ^ahot as an oven

Because of ¹the burning heat of famine.

¹¹They violated the ^awomen in Zion,

The virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hung by their hands;

^1aElders were not respected.

¹³Young men ^alifted up the stone at the grinding mill,

And youths ^bstumbled down under loads of wood.

¹⁴Elders have ceased from being at the gate,

Young men from their ^amusic.

¹⁵The joy of our hearts has ^aceased;

Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

¹⁶The ^acrown has fallen from our head;

^bWoe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷Because of this our ^aheart is faint;

Because of these things our ^beyes are dim;

¹⁸Because of ^aMount Zion which lies desolate,

^bFoxes walk about in it.

^19aYou, O Yahweh, sit enthroned forever;

Your ^bthrone is from generation to generation.

²⁰Why do You ^aforget us forever?

Why do You forsake us ¹so long?

^21aCause us to return to You, O Yahweh, that we may be returned;

Renew ^bour days as of old,

²²Even if ^aYou have utterly rejected us

And are exceedingly ^bangry with us.