| 5.1 |
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see 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 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, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 5.7 |
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. |
| 5.8 |
Servants rule over us: There is no one to deliver us out of their hand. |
| 5.9 |
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, 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 ravished 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 bare the mill; 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 is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 5.16 |
The crown is 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, 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 yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old. |
| 5.22 |
But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us. |
