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