ULT LAM Chapter 5

5 Remember, Yahweh, what has happened to us;

look and see our reproach.

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

our houses to foreigners.

3 We have become orphans,

and there is no father;

our mothers are like widows.

4 Our water we drink for silver;

our wood comes at a price.

5 We are pursued on our necks;

we are weary, and rest is not given to us.

6 We have given a hand to Egypt,

to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers sinned;

they are no more, and we, we bear their iniquities.

8 Servants rule over us;

there is no one tearing us away from their hand.

9 At our lives we bring in our bread,

from the face of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin grows hot like an oven,

from the face of the burning heat of famine.

11 They violate women in Zion,

virgins in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hung by their hands;

the faces of elders are not honored.

13 Young men carry a grinding stone,

and boys stumble under wood.

14 Elders have ceased from the gate,

young men from their music.

15 The joy of our heart has ceased;

our dancing has turned to mourning.

16 The crown of our head has fallen.

Woe now to us, for we have sinned!

17 On account of this, our heart has become sick;

on account of these things, our eyes have grown dim.

18 On account of Mount Zion, which is desolate,

foxes walk on it.

19 You, Yahweh, sit forever;

your throne is to generation and generation.

20 Why do you forget us forever,

why do you forsake us for the length of days?

21 Return us to yourself, Yahweh, and let us return;

renew our days as of old.

22 For have you rejecting, rejected us?

Have you been angry against us beyond measure?