| 5:1 | Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold 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 drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us. |
| 5:5 | Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. |
| 5:6 | We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 5:7 | Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. |
| 5:8 | Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand. |
| 5:9 | We got our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 5:10 | Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
| 5:11 | They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah. |
| 5:12 | Princes are hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. |
| 5:13 | They took the young men to grind, and the children fell 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 hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 5:16 | The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned! |
| 5:17 | For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim. |
| 5:18 | Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
| 5:19 | Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
| 5:20 | Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time? |
| 5:21 | Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. |
| 5:22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very angry with us. |
Lamentations 5 - Revised Webster Version
