Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace

²Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders

³We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows

⁴We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price

⁵We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us

⁶We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread

⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities

⁸Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand

⁹We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness

¹⁰Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine

¹¹They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah

¹²The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders

¹³They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms

¹⁵The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning

¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned

¹⁷Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened

¹⁸because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it

¹⁹But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation

²⁰Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time

²¹Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning

²²But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us