| Chapter 5 |
1 | Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach. |
2 | Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
3 | We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
4 | Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price. |
5 | Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest. |
6 | We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. |
7 | Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities. |
8 | Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. |
9 | We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. |
10 | Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. |
11 | They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah. |
12 | Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured. |
13 | The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood. |
14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. |
15 | The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
16 | The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned! |
17 | For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, |
18 | Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it. |
19 | Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation. |
20 | Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time? |
21 | Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. |
22 | Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us? |