Lamentations 5 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^5:1 Remember, O Yahweh, what has come upon us: Look, and see our reproach.
^5:2 Our inheritance has turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
^5:3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
^5:4 We have drank our water for silver; Our wood is sold to us.
^5:5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
^5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
^5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
^5:8 Slaves rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
^5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our souls, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
^5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
^5:11 They humbled the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
^5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
^5:13 The young men bore the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
^5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
^5:15 The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning.
^5:16 The crown has fallen from our head: Woe to us! For we have sinned.
^5:17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
^5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
^5:19 You, O Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
^5:20 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
^5:21 Turn us to you, O Yahweh, and we will be turned; Renew our days as of old.
^5:22 But you have completely rejected us; You are very angry against us.

Lamentations, Chapter 5