# Daily Bible Reading | Lamentations 5

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# ***LAMENTATIONS 5***

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*Restore Us to Yourself, O LORD*

\[1\] Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us;

look, and see our disgrace!

\[2\] Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

our homes to foreigners.

\[3\] We have become orphans, fatherless;

our mothers are like widows.

\[4\] We must pay for the water we drink;

the wood we get must be bought.

\[5\] Our pursuers are at our necks;

we are weary; we are given no rest.

\[6\] We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,

to get bread enough.

\[7\] Our fathers sinned, and are no more;

and we bear their iniquities.

\[8\] Slaves rule over us;

there is none to deliver us from their hand.

\[9\] We get our bread at the peril of our lives,

because of the sword in the wilderness.

\[10\] Our skin is hot as an oven

with the burning heat of famine.

\[11\] Women are raped in Zion,

young women in the towns of Judah.

\[12\] Princes are hung up by their hands;

no respect is shown to the elders.

\[13\] Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,

and boys stagger under loads of wood.

\[14\] The old men have left the city gate,

the young men their music.

\[15\] The joy of our hearts has ceased;

our dancing has been turned to mourning.

\[16\] The crown has fallen from our head;

woe to us, for we have sinned!

\[17\] For this our heart has become sick,

for these things our eyes have grown dim,

\[18\] for Mount Zion which lies desolate;

jackals prowl over it.

\[19\] But you, O LORD, reign forever;

your throne endures to all generations.

\[20\] Why do you forget us forever,

why do you forsake us for so many days?

\[21\] Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored!

Renew our days as of old—

\[22\] unless you have utterly rejected us,

and you remain exceedingly angry with us. (ESV)