5:1  Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

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

5:3  We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

5:4  We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

5:5  Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

5:6  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

5:7  Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

5:8  Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

5:9  We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

5:11  They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

5:12  Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

5:13  The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

5:14  The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

5:15  The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

5:16  The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

5:17  For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

5:18  For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.

5:19  You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

5:20  Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?

5:21  Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

5:22  But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.