Lamentations

5:1		Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
5:2		Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
5:3		We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
5:4		We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
5:5		Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
5:6		We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
5:7		Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
5:8		Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
5:9		We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
5:10		Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
5:11		They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
5:12		Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
5:13		The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
5:14		The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
5:15		The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
5:16		The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
5:17		Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
5:18		Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
5:19		You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
5:20		Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
5:21		Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
5:22		But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.