Chapter 5

Remember,³ O LORD, what is come upon us: consider,⁵⁴ and behold³ our reproach.

Our inheritance is turned⁸ to strangers,⁵ our houses to aliens.

We are orphans and fatherless, ¹ our mothers [are] as widows.

We have drunken¹ our water for money; our wood is sold^{4 4242} unto us.

Our necks [are] under persecution:⁸ we labour,¹ [and] have no rest.⁹⁰

We have given¹ the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied² with bread.

Our fathers have sinned,¹ [and are] not; and we have borne¹ their iniquities.

Servants have ruled¹ over us: [there is] none that doth deliver⁶ [us] out of their hand.

We gat⁵⁵ our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Our skin was black⁸ like an oven because of the terrible famine.

They ravished¹⁴ the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.

Princes are hanged up⁸ by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.⁸

They took¹ the young men to grind, and the children fell¹ under the wood.

The elders have ceased¹ from the gate, the young men from their musick.

The joy of our heart is ceased;¹ our dance is turned⁸ into mourning.

The crown is fallen¹ [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!¹

For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.¹

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,¹ the foxes walk¹⁴ upon it.

Thou, O LORD, remainest⁴ for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

Wherefore dost thou forget⁴ us for ever, [and] forsake⁴ us so long time?

Turn⁵⁴ thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;⁴ renew¹⁶ our days as of old.

But thou hast utterly² rejected¹ us; thou art very wroth¹ against us.