Lamentations

¹Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace. ↗

²Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders. ↗

³We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows. ↗

⁴We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price. ↗

⁵We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us. ↗

⁶We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread. ↗

⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities. ↗

⁸Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand. ↗

⁹We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness. ↗

¹⁰Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine. ↗

¹¹They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah. ↗

¹²The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders. ↗

¹³They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood. ↗

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms. ↗

¹⁵The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning. ↗

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

¹⁷Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened: ↗

¹⁸because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it. ↗

¹⁹But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation. ↗

²⁰Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time? ↗

²¹Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning. ↗

²²But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us. ↗