Lamentations 5

Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, || Look attentively, and see our reproach.

Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, || Our houses to foreigners.

Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.

We have drunk our water for money, || Our wood comes for a price.

For our neck we have been pursued, || We have labored—there has been no rest for us.

[To] Egypt we have given a hand, || [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Our fathers have sinned—they are not, || We have borne their iniquities.

Servants have ruled over us, || There is no deliverer from their hand.

With our lives we bring in our bread, || Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Our skin as an oven has been burning, || Because of the raging of the famine.

Wives in Zion they have humbled, || Virgins—in cities of Judah.

Princes have been hanged by their hand, || Elderly faces have not been honored.

They have taken young men to grind, || And youths have stumbled with wood.

Elderly have ceased from the gate, || Young men from their song.

The joy of our heart has ceased, || Our dancing has been turned to mourning.

The crown has fallen [from] our head, || Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.

Our heart has been sick for this, || Our eyes have been dim for these.

For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, || Foxes have gone up on it.

You, O YHWH, remain for all time, || Your throne to generation and generation.

Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!

Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, || And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?