< Lamentations 5 >
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.
Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *Q(K)*) and see reproach our.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *Q(K)*) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.
5 Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
At neck our we have been pursued we have become weary (and not *Q(K)*) it has been given rest to us.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.
Ancestors our they sinned (and not [are] they and we *Q(K)*) iniquities their we have borne.
8 Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
With life our we bring bread our because of [the] sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.
12 Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.
Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.
13 The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.
Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.
It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.
It has fallen [the] crown of head our woe! please to us for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,
On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.
18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.
On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.
19 Thou, O Jehovah, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.
You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.
20 Why do thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?
Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.
21 Turn thou us back to thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.
Cause to return us O Yahweh - to yourself (so let us return *Q(K)*) renew days our like ancient time.
22 But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.
That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.