| 5:1 | *O Lord, reflect on* what has happened to us; consider* and look at* our disgrace. |
| 5:2 | Our inheritance* is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.* |
| 5:3 | We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. |
| 5:4 | We must pay money* for our own water;* we must buy our own wood at a steep price.* |
| 5:5 | We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks;* we are weary and have no rest.* |
| 5:6 | We have submitted* to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.* |
| 5:7 | Our forefathers* sinned and are dead,* but we* suffer* their punishment.* |
| 5:8 | Slaves* rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.* |
| 5:9 | At the risk* of our lives* we get our food* because robbers lurk* in the countryside.* |
| 5:10 | Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.* |
| 5:11 | They raped* women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. |
| 5:12 | Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.* |
| 5:13 | The young men perform menial labor;* boys stagger from their labor.* |
| 5:14 | The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. |
| 5:15 | Our hearts no longer have any joy;* our dancing is turned to mourning. |
| 5:16 | The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! |
| 5:17 | Because of this, our hearts are sick;* because of these things, we can hardly see* through our tears.* |
| 5:18 | For wild animals* are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate. |
| 5:19 | But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. |
| 5:20 | Why do you keep on forgetting* us? Why do you forsake us so long? |
| 5:21 | Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return* to you; renew our life* as in days before,* |
| 5:22 | unless* you have utterly rejected us* and are angry with us beyond measure.* |
Lamentations 5 - NET Bible [draft]
