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5:1  Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!
5:2  Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
5:3  We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
5:4  We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
5:5  Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.
5:6  We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
5:7  Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
5:8  Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
5:9  We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
5:10  Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
5:11  Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
5:12  Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
5:13  Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.
5:14  The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.
5:15  The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
5:16  The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
5:17  For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
5:18  for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
5:19  But you, O Lord, reign for ever; your throne endures to all generations.
5:20  Why do you forget us for ever, why do you forsake us for so many days?
5:21  Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old—
5:22  unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.