1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)

A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

5:1 ¶ Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:

5:2 Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.

5:3 Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.

5:4 Our water—for silver, have we drunk, our wood—for a price, cometh in.

5:5 Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.

5:6 To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

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

5:8 Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.

5:9 At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.

5:10 Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.

5:11 Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!

5:12 Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.

5:13 Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.

5:14 Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.

5:15 Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.

5:16 Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

5:17 ¶ For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:

5:18 Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.

5:19 Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:

5:20 Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?

5:21 Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;

5:22 For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us—exceedingly!

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