21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
⁴We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
⁵Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
⁸Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
¹⁰Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
¹²Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
¹³They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
¹⁷For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
¹⁹Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
²²But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.