Lamentations 5:1-6 ▼

1 O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

4 We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

5 We are pursued--they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.

6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.