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5:1  Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us look, and see our disgrace.
5:2  Our inherited lands have been given to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
5:3  We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
5:4  We must purchase the water we drink; we must pay for our own wood.
5:5  On our necks is the yoke of those who persecute us; although we are exhausted, we are afforded no rest.
5:6  We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread to sustain us.
5:7  Our ancestors who sinned are no longer alive, but we bear the burden of their guilt.
5:8  Slaves have become our rulers; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
5:9  We earn our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
5:10  Our skin is blackened as in a furnace from the scorching heat of famine.
5:11  Women have been raped in Zion and virgins in the towns of Judah.
5:12  Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
5:13  Young men toil, carrying the millstones; boys stagger under their loads of wood.
5:14  The old men no longer assemble at the city gate; the young men have given up their music.
5:15  Joy has vanished from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
5:16  The garlands have fallen from our heads; woe to us, for we have sinned.
5:17  This is why we are sick at heart; because of this our eyes have grown dim.
5:18  Mount Zion lies desolate, overrun with jackals.
5:19  But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from age to age.
5:20  Why have you ceased to remember us? Why have you abandoned us for so long a time?
5:21  Restore us back to you, O Lord, and we will return. Renew our days as we had of old,
5:22  unless you have utterly rejected us with an anger that is beyond measure.