Lamentations 5 · Clearspring

A Prayer for Restoration

¹Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.+ ²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.+ ³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.+ ⁴We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.+ ⁵Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.+ ⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.+ ⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.+ ⁸Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.+ ⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.+ ¹⁰Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.+ ¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.+ ¹²Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.+ ¹³They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.+ ¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.+ ¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.+ ¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!+ ¹⁷For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.+ ¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.+ ¹⁹Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.+ ²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?+ ²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.+ ²²But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.+

A Prayer for Restoration

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