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5:1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame. 5:2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen. 5:3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows. 5:4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price. 5:5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest. 5:6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread. 5:7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us. 5:8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands. 5:9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land. 5:10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food. 5:11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah. 5:12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured. 5:13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood. 5:14 The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end. 5:15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow. 5:16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners. 5:17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark; 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it. 5:19 You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal. 5:20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long? 5:21 Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past. 5:22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.