Lamentations 5:1-15 ▼

1 Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, || Look attentively, and see our reproach.

2 Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, || Our houses to foreigners.

3 Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.

4 We have drunk our water for money, || Our wood comes for a price.

5 For our neck we have been pursued, || We have labored—there has been no rest for us.

6 [To] Egypt we have given a hand, || [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned—they are not, || We have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us, || There is no deliverer from their hand.

9 With our lives we bring in our bread, || Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin as an oven has been burning, || Because of the raging of the famine.

11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, || Virgins—in cities of Judah.

12 Princes have been hanged by their hand, || Elderly faces have not been honored.

13 They have taken young men to grind, || And youths have stumbled with wood.

14 Elderly have ceased from the gate, || Young men from their song.

15 The joy of our heart has ceased, || Our dancing has been turned to mourning.