      | ¶ | Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. | |
 | Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. | ||
| We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. | ||
| We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. | ||
| Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. | ||
| We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. | ||
| Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. | ||
| Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand. | ||
| We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. | ||
| ¶ | Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. | |
 | They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah. | ||
| Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. | ||
| They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. | ||
| The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. | ||
| The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. | ||
| The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! | ||
| For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim. | ||
| Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. | ||
 | ¶ | Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. | |
| Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time? | ||
| Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. | ||
| But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |
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Lamentations - Chapter 5
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