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Lamentations 5

The prayer of Jeremiáh
1.Remember, ô Lord, what is come upon us: aconsider, and behold our reproach.
2.Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliantes.
3.We are fatherless, even without father, and our mothers are as widows.
4.We have drunken our bwater for money, and our wood is sold
5.Our necks are under persecution: we are weary, and have no rest.
6.We have given our ehands to the Egyptians, and to Asshúr, to be satisfied with bread.
7.Our father’s have sinned, and are not, and we have born their diniquities.
8.Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands.
9.We gate our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword eof the wilderness.
10.Our skin was black like as an oven because of the terrible famine.
11.They defiled the women in Zión, and the maids in the cities of Judáh.
12.The princes are hanged up by ftheir hand: the faces of the Elders were not had in honour.
13.They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under gthe wood.
14.The Elders have ceased from the hgate and the young men from their songs.
15.The joy of our hearts is gone, our dance is turned into mourning.
16.The crown of our head is fallen: wo now unto us, that we have sinned.
17.Therefore our heart is heavy for these things, our ieyes are dim,
18.Because of the mountain of Zión which is desolate: the foxes run upon it.
19.But thou, ô Lord, remainest for kever: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20.Wherefore doest thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21.lTurn thou us unto thee, ô Lord, and we shalbe turned: renew our days as of old.
22.But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou art exceedingly angry against us.

Notes

1-a.
This prayer as is thought, was made when some of the people were carried away captive, others as the poorest remained, and some went into Egypt and other places for succour: albeit it seems that the Prophet foreseeing their miseries to come, thus prayed.
4-b.
Meaning, their extreme servitude and bondage.
6-c.
We are joined in league and amity with them, or have submitted ourselves unto them.
7-d.
As our father’s have been punished for their sins, lo we that are culpable of the same sins, are punished.
9-e.
Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness, and would not suffer us to go, and seek our necessary food.
12-f.
That is by the enemy’s hand.
13-g.
Their slavery was so great, that they were not able to abide it.
14-h.
There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth.
17-i.
With weeping.
19-k.
And therefore your covenant, and mercies can never fail.
21-l.
Whereby is declared that it is not in man’s power to turn to God, but is only his work to convert us, and thus God works in us before we can turn to him, Jer. 31.18.