5:1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

5:2 Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

5:3 we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

5:4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:

5:5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

5:6 Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.

5:7 Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have bore their iniquities.

5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.

5:9 We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

5:10 Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

5:11 They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.

5:13 The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

5:14 And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

5:15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

5:16 The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

5:17 For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

5:18 Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

5:19 But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.

5:20 Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

5:21 Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

5:22 For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.

5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

5:19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.