Klagelieder 5

1. ¹Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
2. ²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3. ³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4. ⁴Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
5. ⁵Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
6. ⁶We have given the hand to Egypt, [ergänzt: and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7. ⁷Our fathers have sinned, [ergänzt: and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
8. ⁸Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
9. ⁹We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10. ¹⁰Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
11. ¹¹They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
12. ¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
13. ¹³The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
14. ¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15. ¹⁵The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16. ¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
17. ¹⁷For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18. ¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
19. ¹⁹Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
20. ²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
21. ²¹Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22. ²²Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

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