Lamentations 5:1-15 ▼

1 REMEMBER, O LORD, what has come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

5 Our necks are under yokes; we labor, and have no rest.

6 The Egyptians gave a helping hand, and we looked to the Assyrians to provide bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands.

9 We get our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

10 Our skin has shriveled as though burned in an oven because of the suffering of famine.

11 Women are ravished in Zion, and virgins in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hands; the faces of the elders are not honored.

13 The young men grind the mill, and the youths stumble under loads of wood.

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their joy.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.