Lamentations
1
Remember[H2142], O LORD[H3068], what is come upon us: consider[H5027], and behold[H7200] our reproach[H2781].
2
Our inheritance[H5159] is turned[H2015] to strangers[H2114], our houses[H1004] to aliens[H5237].
3
We are orphans[H3490] and fatherless[H369], our mothers[H517] are as widows[H490].
4
We have drunken[H8354] our water[H4325] for money[H3701]; our wood[H6086] is sold[H935] unto us.
5
Our necks[H6677] are under persecution[H7291]: we labour[H3021], and have no rest[H5117].
6
We have given[H5414] the hand[H3027] to the Egyptians[H4714], and to the Assyrians[H804], to be satisfied[H7646] with bread[H3899].
7
Our fathers[H1] have sinned[H2398], and are not[H369]; and we have borne[H5445] their iniquities[H5771].
8
Servants[H5650] have ruled[H4910] over us: there is none that doth deliver[H6561] us out of their hand[H3027].
9
We gat[H935] our bread[H3899] with the peril of our lives[H5315] because[H6440] of the sword[H2719] of the wilderness[H4057].
10
Our skin[H5785] was black[H3648] like an oven[H8574] because[H6440] of the terrible[H2152] famine[H7458].
11
They ravished[H6031] the women[H802] in Zion[H6726], and the maids[H1330] in the cities[H5892] of Judah[H3063].
12
Princes[H8269] are hanged up[H8518] by their hand[H3027]: the faces[H6440] of elders[H2205] were not honoured[H1921].
13
They took[H5375] the young men[H970] to grind[H2911], and the children[H5288] fell[H3782] under the wood[H6086].
14
The elders[H2205] have ceased[H7673] from the gate[H8179], the young men[H970] from their musick[H5058].
15
The joy[H4885] of our heart[H3820] is ceased[H7673]; our dance[H4234] is turned[H2015] into mourning[H60].
16
The crown[H5850] is fallen[H5307] from our head[H7218]: woe[H188] unto us, that we have sinned[H2398]!
17
For this our heart[H3820] is faint[H1739]; for these things our eyes[H5869] are dim[H2821].
18
Because of the mountain[H2022] of Zion[H6726], which is desolate[H8074], the foxes[H7776] walk[H1980] upon it.
19
Thou, O LORD[H3068], remainest[H3427] for ever[H5769]; thy throne[H3678] from generation[H1755] to generation[H1755].
20
Wherefore dost thou forget[H7911] us for ever[H5331], and forsake[H5800] us so long[H753] time?[H3117]
21
Turn[H7725] thou us unto thee, O LORD[H3068], and we shall be turned[H7725]; renew[H2318] our days[H3117] as of old[H6924].
22
But thou hast utterly[H3988] rejected[H3988] us; thou art very[H3966] wroth[H7107] against us.