Lamentations 5:1-6 ▼

1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

2 Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

3 we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:

5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

6 Egypt gave the hand to us , Assur to their own satisfaction.