Through My Bible Yr 2 – May 10

Lamentations 5

¹ Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us;
look, and see our disgrace.

² Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
our homes to foreigners.

³ We have become orphans and fatherless,
our mothers like widows.

⁴ We must buy the water we drink;
our wood can be had only at a price.

⁵ Those who pursue us are at our heels;
we are weary and find no rest.

⁶ We submitted to Egypt and Assyria
to get enough bread.

⁷ Our fathers sinned and are no more,
and we bear their punishment.

⁸ Slaves rule over us,
and there is none to free us from their hands.

⁹ We get our bread at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the desert.

¹⁰ Our skin is hot as an oven,
feverish from hunger.

¹¹ Women have been ravished in Zion,
and virgins in the towns of Judah.

¹² Princes have been hung up by their hands;
elders are shown no respect.

¹³ Young men toil at the millstones;
boys stagger under loads of wood.

¹⁴ The elders are gone from the city gate;
the young men have stopped their music.

¹⁵ Joy is gone from our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷ Because of this our hearts are faint,
because of these things our eyes grow dim

¹⁸ for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,
with jackals prowling over it.

¹⁹ You, O LORD, reign forever;
your throne endures from generation to generation.

²⁰ Why do you always forget us?
Why do you forsake us so long?

²¹ Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may return;
renew our days as of old

²² unless you have utterly rejected us
and are angry with us beyond measure.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.