Lamentations 5
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
13 The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
19 You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
20 Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?
21 Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
