Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:

²Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,

³We are orphans and fatherless;

⁴We have drunken our water for money;

⁵Our pursuers are upon our necks:

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians,

⁷Our fathers sinned, and are not;

⁸Servants rule over us:

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives,

¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven,

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion,

¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand:

¹³The young men bare the mill;

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate,

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased;

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head:

¹⁷For this our heart is faint;

¹⁸For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:

¹⁹Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever;

²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,

²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned;

²²But thou hast utterly rejected us;