They didn't respect the persons of the priests, they didn't favor the elders. 004:017 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. 004:018 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. 004:019 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. 004:020 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. 004:021 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked. 004:022 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins. 005:001 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach. 005:002 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. 005:003 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. 005:004 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us. 005:005 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. 005:006 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 005:007 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. 005:008 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. 005:009 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. 005:010 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. 005:011 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. 005:012 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. 005:013 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood. 005:014 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. 005:015 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. 005:016 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned. 005:017 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; 005:018 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it. 005:019 You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. 005:020 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time? 005:021 Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. 005:022 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.