5:1. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our
reproach.
5:2. Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
5:3. We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
5:4. We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5:6. We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given
us.
5:6. We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we
might 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 was none to redeem us out of
their hand.
5:9. We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the
sword in the desert.
5:10. Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the
famine.
5:11. They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities
of Juda.
5:12. The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect
the persons of the ancients.
5:13. They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under
the wood.
5:14. The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the
choir of the singers.
5:15. The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into
mourning.
5:16. The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have
sinned.
5:17. Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become
dim.
5:18. For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon
it.
5:19. But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from
generation to generation.
5:20. Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a
long time?
5:21. Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our
days, as from the beginning.
5:22. But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry
with us.