Lamentations 5:1-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

5 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

² Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

³ We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

⁴ We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

⁵ We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.

⁶ We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.

⁷ Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

⁸ Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

⁹ We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

¹⁰ Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

¹¹ They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.