Douay Bible - Lamentations Chapter 5

Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

Lamentations 5:3
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:4
We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

Lamentations 5:5
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.

Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:9
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Lamentations 5:11
They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Lamentations 5:12
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.

Lamentations 5:13
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

Lamentations 5:14
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.

Lamentations 5:17
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,

Lamentations 5:18
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

Lamentations 5:19
But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5:20
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

Lamentations 5:21
Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

Lamentations 5:22
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.