5: 2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
5: 3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
5: 4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood 51is sold unto us.
51Hb. cometh for price.
5: 5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, 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 sinned, and are not; And 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 souls, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
5: 10 Our skin is 52black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
52Or, hot
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; And 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 unto 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 53foxes walk upon it.
53Or, jackals
5: 19 Thou, O Jehovah, 54abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
54Or, sittest as King for ever;
5: 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long a time?
5: 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
5: 22 55But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.
55Or, Unless thou hast utterly rejected us; And art very wroth against us.
