^ La 5.1:   Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
^ La 5.2:   Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
^ La 5.3:   We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
^ La 5.4:   We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
^ La 5.5:   Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
^ La 5.6:   We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
^ La 5.7:   Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
^ La 5.8:   Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
^ La 5.9:   We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
^ La 5.10:   Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
^ La 5.11:   They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
^ La 5.12:   Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
^ La 5.13:   They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
^ La 5.14:   The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
^ La 5.15:   The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
^ La 5.16:   The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
^ La 5.17:   For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
^ La 5.18:   Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
^ La 5.19:   Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
^ La 5.20:   Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
^ La 5.21:   Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
^ La 5.22:   But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.