Lamentations 5
A Prayer for Mercy
1Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;Look, and see our areproach!
2Our inheritance has been turned over to bstrangers,
Our chouses to aliens.
3We have become orphans dwithout a father,
Our mothers are like widows.
4 ▼
▼ Lit We drink our water for silver
We have to pay for our drinking fwater,Our wood comes to us at a price.
5 ▼
▼ Lit We have been pursued upon
Our pursuers are at our necks;We are worn out, there is hno rest for us.
6We have ▼
▼ Lit given the hand to
submitted to jEgypt and Assyria ▼▼ Lit to be satisfied with
to get enough bread.7Our lfathers sinned, and are no more;
It is we who have borne their iniquities.
8 mSlaves rule over us;
There is nno one to deliver us from their hand.
9We get our bread ▼
▼ Lit with our soul
at the prisk of our lives▼
▼ Or In the face of
Because of the sword in the wilderness.10Our skin has become as rhot as an oven,
Because of ▼
▼ Or the ravages of hunger
the burning heat of famine.11They ravished the twomen in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12Princes were hung by their hands;
▼
▼ Lit The faces of elders
,
vElders were not respected.13Young men ▼
▼ Lit carry
,
xworked at the grinding mill,And youths ystumbled under loads of wood.
14Elders ▼
▼ Lit have ceased
are gone from the gate,Young men from their aamusic.
15The joy of our hearts has abceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
16The accrown has fallen from our head;
adWoe to us, for we have sinned!
17Because of this our aeheart is faint,
Because of these things our afeyes are dim;
18Because of agMount Zion which lies desolate,
ahFoxes prowl in it.
19 aiYou, O Lord, ▼
▼ Lit sit
rule forever;Your akthrone is from generation to generation.
20Why do You alforget us forever?
Why do You forsake us ▼
▼ Lit to length of days
so long?21 anRestore us to You, O Lord, that we may be restored;
Renew aoour days as of old,
22Unless apYou have utterly rejected us
And are exceedingly aqangry with us.
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