005:001
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

005:002
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

005:003
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

005:004
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

005:005
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

005:006
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

005:007
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

005:008
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

005:009
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

005:010
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

005:011
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

005:012
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

005:013
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

005:014
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

005:015
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

005:016
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

005:017
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

005:018
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

005:019
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

005:020
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

005:021
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

005:022
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.