Lamentations 5:1-6 ▼

1 LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame!

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.

3 We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows.

4 We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.

5 Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us.

6 We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food.