# Lamentations 05 đź“–
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## đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### The People of Jerusalem Pray
[[#Verse 01.]] O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us;
consider and look at our disgrace.
[[#Verse 02.]] Our inheritance is turned over to strangers;
foreigners now occupy our homes.
[[#Verse 03.]]Â We have become fatherless orphans;
our mothers have become widows.
[[#Verse 04.]] We must pay money for our own water;
we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
[[#Verse 05.]] We are pursued—they are breathing down our necks;
we are weary and have no rest.
[[#Verse 06.]] We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria
in order to buy food to eat.
[[#Verse 07.]] Our forefathers sinned and are dead,
but we suffer their punishment.
[[#Verse 08.]] Slaves rule over us;
there is no one to rescue us from their power.
[[#Verse 09.]] At the risk of our lives we get our food
because robbers lurk in the wilderness.
[[#Verse 10.]]Â Our skin is as hot as an oven
due to a fever from hunger.
[[#Verse 11.]] They raped women in Zion,
virgins in the towns of Judah.
[[#Verse 12.]]Â Princes were hung by their hands;
elders were mistreated.
[[#Verse 13.]]Â The young men perform menial labor;
boys stagger from their labor.
[[#Verse 14.]]Â The elders are gone from the city gate;
the young men have stopped playing their music.
[[#Verse 15.]]Â Our hearts no longer have any joy;
our dancing is turned to mourning.
[[#Verse 16.]]Â The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
[[#Verse 17.]]Â Because of this, our hearts are sick;
because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.
[[#Verse 18.]] For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion,
which lies desolate.
[[#Verse 19.]]Â But you, OÂ Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures from generation to generation.
[[#Verse 20.]] Why do you keep on forgetting us?
Why do you forsake us so long?
[[#Verse 21.]] Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return to you;
renew our life as in days before,
[[#Verse 22.]] unless you have utterly rejected us
and are angry with us beyond measure.
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## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
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