A.  The Review of the Need for Restoration................... 5:1-15

Lam 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Lam 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lam 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Lam 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

Lam 5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lam 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lam 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Lam 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Lam 5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Lam 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Lam 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Lam 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Lam 5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Lam 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

Lam 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.