CHAPTER 5
1 Lord, have thou mind what befell to us; see thou, and behold our shame.
2 Our heritage is turned to aliens, our houses be turned to strangers.
3 We be made fatherless children without a father; our mothers be as widows.
4 We drank our water for money, we bought our wood for silver.
5 We were driven by our heads, and rest was not given to faint men.
6 We gave hand to Egypt, and to Assyrians, that we should be [ful] filled with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and be not, and we bare the wickednesses of them
8 Servants were lords of us, and none was, that again-bought from the hand of them.
9 In our lives we brought bread to us, from the face of [the] sword in desert.
10 Our skin is burnt as a furnace, of the face of tempests of hunger.
11 They made low women in Zion, and virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged [up] by the hand; they were not ashamed of the faces of eld [or old] men.
13 They misused young waxing men unchastely, and children fell down in tree.
14 Eld [or Old] men failed from [the] gates; young men failed from the quire or choir of singers.
15 The joy of our heart failed; our song is turned into mourning.
16 The crown of our head fell down; woe to us! for we sinned.
17 Therefore our heart is made sorrowful, therefore our eyes be made dark.
18 For the hill of Zion, for it perished; foxes went in it.
19 But thou, Lord, shalt dwell without end; thy seat shall dwell in generation and into generation.
20 Why shalt thou forget us without end, shalt thou forsake us into [the] length of days?
21 Lord, convert thou us to thee, and we shall be converted; make thou new our days, as at the beginning.
22 But thou casting away hast cast away us; thou art wroth against us greatly.