V.
The fifth lamentation — a lamentation as a prayer for the holy people as the conclusion of the fourth lamentation
5:1-22
Lam. 5
:1
5:1
aRemember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us;
Look and see our reproach.
Lam. 5
:2
5:2
Our ainheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to foreigners.
Lam. 5
:3
5:3
We are orphans without father;
Our mothers are like widows.
Lam. 5
:4
5:4
We have drunk our water for money;
Our wood comes
to us at a price.
Lam. 5
:5
5:5
On our necks are our pursuers;
We are weary; we have no rest.
Lam. 5
:6
5:6
We have given
our hand to
aEgypt And to Assyria, so as to be satisfied with bread.
Lam. 5
:7
5:7
Our fathers sinned
and they
aare not,
And we ourselves bear their iniquities.
Lam. 5
:8
5:8
Slaves rule over us;
There is no one to deliver
us from their hand.
Lam. 5
:9
5:9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword from the wilderness.
Lam. 5
:10
5:10
Our skin is
ablack like an oven
Because of the burning heat of famine.
Lam. 5
:11
5:11
They have ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lam. 5
:12
5:12
Princes were hanged by them.
The faces of the elders were not honored.
Lam. 5
:13
5:13
The young men bore the mill,
And the young boys stumbled under the wood.
Lam. 5
:14
5:14
The old men have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.
Lam. 5
:15
5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased;
Our dance has been turned into mourning.
Lam. 5
:16
5:16
The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us! For we have sinned.
Lam. 5
:17
5:17
Because of this our heart is faint;
Because of these things our eyes are dim;
Lam. 5
:18
5:18
Because of Mount
aZion, which is desolate —
Foxes rove in it.
Lam. 5
:19
5:19
aYou, O Jehovah,
1abide forever;
Your
bthrone is from generation to generation.
Lam. 5
:20
5:20
1Why do You forget us forever
And forsake us for so long a time?
Lam. 5
:21
5:21
1aTurn us back to You, O Jehovah, and we will be turned;
Renew our days as before.
Lam. 5
:22
5:22
Or have You
1utterly rejected us?
Are You
1exceedingly angry with us?
