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5:1  O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.
5:2  Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
5:3  We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
5:4  We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
5:5  We are pursued--they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
5:6  We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
5:7  Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.
5:8  Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
5:9  At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.
5:10  Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
5:11  They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
5:12  Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
5:13  The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
5:14  The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.
5:15  Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
5:16  The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
5:17  Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.
5:18  For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.
5:19  But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
5:20  Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
5:21  Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,
5:22  unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.