5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 
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. 
5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 

5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows. 
5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows. 

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

5:5 Our necks {are} under persecution: we labor, {and} have no rest. 
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. 
5:6 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. 
5:7 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. 
5:8 Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand. 

5:9 We procured our bread with {the peril of} our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 
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. 
5:10 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. 
5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, {and} the maids in the cities of Judah. 

5:12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored. 
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. 
5:13 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. 
5:14 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. 
5:15 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! 
5:16 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. 
5:17 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. 
5:18 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. 
5:19 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? 
5:20 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. 
5:21 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 wroth against us. 
5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very angry with us.