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          DASV: Lamentations 5

1 O LORD, remember what has happened to us.
      Look and see our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
      our houses to foreigners.
3 We have become like fatherless orphans;
      our mothers have become like widows.
4 We must pay to drink our own water;
      we are forced to buy our own wood.
5 Our pursuers are breathing down our necks;
      we are exhausted but have no rest.
6 We have made an agreement with the Egyptians,
     and with the Assyrians in order to secure food.
7 Our fathers sinned and are gone;
     we have suffered for their sins.
8 Servants rule over us;
     there is no one to rescue us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
     because the sword dominates the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black as an oven,
     because of the burning fever of famine.
11 They raped the women in Zion,
     virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Officials were hung up by their hands;
     the elders were disrespected.
13 The young men were forced to grind at the mill;
     the children stumbled under loads of wood.
14 The elders have deserted the city gate;
     the young men abandoned their music.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased;
     our dance has turned to mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our heads.
     Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Because of this our hearts are faint,
     for these things our eyes dim with tears.
18 The mountain of Zion is deserted;
     the jackals prowl around in it.
19 But you, O LORD, reign forever;
     your throne lasts from generation to generation.
20 Why do you always forget us?
     Why have you forsaken us for so long?
21 Restore us to yourself, O LORD,
     and we will come back.
           Renew our days as of old.
22 But you have totally rejected us,
     you are still very angry with us.
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