1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

5:1 ¶ Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

5:2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

5:3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

5:4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

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

5:6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.

5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

5:9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

5:11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

5:12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

5:13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

5:14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.

5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

5:17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

5:18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

5:19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.

5:20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

5:21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.

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