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 forever; your throne endures to all generations. 5:20 Why do you forget us forever, 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.