Lamentations 5 Literal Standard Version

51 Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, || Look attentively, and see our reproach. 2 Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, || Our houses to foreigners. 3 Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows. 4 We have drunk our water for money, || Our wood comes for a price. 5 For our neck we have been pursued, || We have labored—there has been no rest for us. 6 [To] Egypt we have given a hand, || [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned—they are not, || We have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants have ruled over us, || There is no deliverer from their hand. 9 With our lives we bring in our bread, || Because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin as an oven has been burning, || Because of the raging of the famine. 11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, || Virgins—in cities of Judah. 12 Princes have been hanged by their hand, || Elderly faces have not been honored. 13 They have taken young men to grind, || And youths have stumbled with wood. 14 Elderly have ceased from the gate, || Young men from their song. 15 The joy of our heart has ceased, || Our dancing has been turned to mourning. 16 The crown has fallen [from] our head, || Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned. 17 Our heart has been sick for this, || Our eyes have been dim for these. 18 For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, || Foxes have gone up on it. 19 You, O YHWH, remain for all time, || Your throne to generation and generation. 20 Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days! 21 Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, || And we turn back, renew our days as of old. 22 For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?