| 5:1: Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach. |
| 5:2: Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. |
| 5:3: We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. |
| 5:4: We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us. |
| 5:5: Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. |
| 5:6: We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 5:7: Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. |
| 5:8: Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. |
| 5:9: We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 5:10: Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. |
| 5:11: They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. |
| 5:12: Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. |
| 5:13: The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood. |
| 5:14: The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. |
| 5:15: The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 5:16: The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned. |
| 5:17: For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; |
| 5:18: For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it. |
| 5:19: You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. |
| 5:20: Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time? |
| 5:21: Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. |
| 5:22: But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us. |
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