Lamentations 5:1-6 ▼

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

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

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

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

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

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