Lamentations 5

1 remember, o lord, what is come upon us consider, and behold 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 we have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us 5 our necks are under persecution we labour, and have no rest 6 we have given the hand to the egyptians, and to the assyrians, to be satisfied with bread 7 our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities 8 servants have ruled over us there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand 9 we gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness 10 our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine 11 they ravished the women in zion, and the maids in the cities of judah 12 princes are hanged up by their hand the faces of elders were not honoured 13 they took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood 14 the elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick 15 the joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning 16 the crown is fallen from our head woe unto us, that we have sinned! 17 for this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim 18 because of the mountain of zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it 19 thou, o lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation 20 wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? 21 turn thou us unto thee, o lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old 22 but thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us