The King James Version Bible

Lamentations 5:14-22

  1. The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

  2. The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

  3. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

  4. For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

  5. Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

  6. Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

  7. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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

  9. But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.