Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us:

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers,

³We are orphans and fatherless,

⁴We have drunken our water for money;

⁵Our necks are under persecution:

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians,

⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not;

⁸Servants have ruled over us:

⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives

¹⁰Our skin was black like an oven

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion,

¹²Princes are hanged up by their hand:

¹³They took the young men to grind,

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate,

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased;

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head:

¹⁷For this our heart is faint;

¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,

¹⁹Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever;

²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,

²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned;

²²But thou hast utterly rejected us;