# Lamentations 5 [[Lam-04|← Lamentations 04]] | [[Lamentations]] *** ###### v1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach. ###### v2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens. ###### v3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. ###### v4 We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us. ###### v5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest. ###### v6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ###### v7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities. ###### v8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand. ###### v9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. ###### v10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine. ###### v11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah. ###### v12 Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored. ###### v13 The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood. ###### v14 The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music. ###### v15 The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning. ###### v16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! ###### v17 For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim: ###### v18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it. ###### v19 You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation. ###### v20 Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time? ###### v21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old. ###### v22 But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us. *** [[Lam-04|← Lamentations 04]] | [[Lamentations]]