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Look, and see our reproach. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But you have utterly rejected us. 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