# Lamentations 5 [[Lamentations 4|←]] • [[Ezekiel 1|→]] --- ### 1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. ### 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. ### 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers as widows. ### 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. ### 5 Our necks under persecution: we labour, have no rest. ### 6 We have given the hand the Egyptians, the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ### 7 Our fathers have sinned, not; and we have borne their iniquities. ### 8 Servants have ruled over us: none that doth deliver out of their hand. ### 9 We gat our bread with our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. ### 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. ### 11 They ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah. ### 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. ### 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. ### 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. ### 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. ### 16 The crown is fallen our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! ### 17 For this our heart is faint; for these our eyes are dim. ### 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. ### 19 Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. ### 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, forsake us so long time? ### 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. ### 22 But thou hast utterly us; rejected thou art very wroth against us.