Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations - Volume 5

1Remember, O Jehovah, what has come to us; Look, and see our reproach:

2Our heritage is turned over to foreigners, Our houses to aliens.

3Orphans are we become, without a father; Our mothers are as widows.

4Our own water, for money we drink; Our own wood, for a price it comes to us.

5On our necks have we suffered persecution; We have labored, and had no rest.

6To the Egyptians we extended the hand, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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

8Servants have ruled over us; None delivered from their hands.

9With our life have we procured our bread, Because of the drought of the desert.

10Our skins are like an oven black, Because of the burnings of famine.

11Women in Sion have been ravished, Virgins in the cities of Judah.

12Princes by their own hand were hung, The faces of elders were not honored.

13Young men they took to grind, And boys under the wood fell.

14Eiders ceased from the gate, Young men from their music.

15Ceased has the joy of our heart, Turned into mourning has our dance.

16Fallen has the crown of our head; Woe now to us, for we have sinned!

17Therefore faint is our heart; For this darkener! are our eyes,

18Even for mount Sion, which is desolate; Foxes pass through it.

19Thou Jehovah for ever sittest, Thy throne is through all ages.

20Why shouldest thou perpetually forget us, And forsake us for ever.

21Turn us, Jehovah, to thee, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old;

22Except thou hast wholly rejected us, And hast become very angry with us.

PRAISE BE TO GOD