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OEB LAM Chapter 5

LAM 5 ©

5Bethink thee, O Lord, of our plight;

Look and see how Thy folk are insulted.

2Our home-land is turned unto strangers;

Our houses are passed unto foreigners.

3Fatherless orphans are we,

And our mothers are like unto widows.

4The water we drink we must buy,

And our wood becomes our at a price.

5The yoke presses hard on our necks;

We are weary and never find rest.

6We have stretched out our hands unto Egypt;

To Assyria also, for bread.

7Our fathers, who sinned are no more;

And their guilt has been borne by us.

8Servants are now our lords;

From their hand there is no one to save us.

9We win bread at the risk of our lives

From the murderous bands of the desert.

10Like an oven our skin is aglow

With the fierce fever-heat of famine.

11The matrons they ravished in Zion,

The maids in the cities of Judah:

12Princes were hanged by their hands,

And the faces of elders dishonoured.

13Young men had to carry the mill;

Youths fell beneath loads of wood.

14The elders have from the gate

And the youths given over their music.

15The joy of our heart is vanished;

Our dancing is turned into mourning.

16The crown is fallen from our head;

Woe, woe unto us! We have sinned.

17For this is our heart turned faint,

For these things our eyes are grown dim–

18For the mountains of Zion, now waste,

Over which the jackals roam.

Prayer for Deliverance

19But thou, Lord, art seated for ever,

From age to age, on Thy throne.

20O why then forget us for ever,

And leave us for long, long days?

21Bring us back to Thee, Lord, let us turn,

And renew our days as of old;

22Unless Thou hast utterly spurned us

And Thine anger is all too sore.

LAM 5 ©

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