English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 5, verse 26 in Net Version

Lamentations 5 : 1 (NET)

O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

Lamentations 5 : 2 (NET)

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

Lamentations 5 : 3 (NET)

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

Lamentations 5 : 4 (NET)

We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

Lamentations 5 : 5 (NET)

We are pursued� they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.

Lamentations 5 : 6 (NET)

We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

Lamentations 5 : 7 (NET)

Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

Lamentations 5 : 8 (NET)

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

Lamentations 5 : 9 (NET)

At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.

Lamentations 5 : 10 (NET)

Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.

Lamentations 5 : 11 (NET)

They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

Lamentations 5 : 12 (NET)

Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.

Lamentations 5 : 13 (NET)

The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.

Lamentations 5 : 14 (NET)

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

Lamentations 5 : 15 (NET)

Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.

Lamentations 5 : 16 (NET)

The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

Lamentations 5 : 17 (NET)

Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.

Lamentations 5 : 18 (NET)

For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.

Lamentations 5 : 19 (NET)

But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.

Lamentations 5 : 20 (NET)

Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

Lamentations 5 : 21 (NET)

Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,

Lamentations 5 : 22 (NET)

unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.