Lamentations 5:1-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

5 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
    behold, and see our disgrace!
² Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
    our homes to aliens.
³ We have become orphans, fatherless;
    our mothers are like widows.
⁴ We must pay for the water we drink,
    the wood we get must be bought.
⁵ With a yoke^[a] on our necks we are hard driven;
    we are weary, we are given no rest.
⁶ We have given the hand to Egypt,
    and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
⁷ Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
    and we bear their iniquities.