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