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5:1  Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
5:2  Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
5:3  Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
5:4  Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
5:5  For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
5:6  [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
5:7  Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
5:8  Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
5:9  With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:10  Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
5:11  Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
5:12  Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
5:13  Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
5:14  The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
5:15  Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
5:16  Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
5:17  For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
5:18  For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
5:19  Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
5:20  Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
5:21  Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
5:22  For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?