Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
