< Lamentations 5 >

1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *Q(K)*) and see reproach our.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.
3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *Q(K)*) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.
5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find 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 submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
Ancestors our they sinned (and not [are] they and we *Q(K)*) iniquities their we have borne.
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
With life our we bring bread our because of [the] sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.
13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.
14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.
15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to 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 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.
18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.
19 You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.
20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.
21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; 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 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.

< Lamentations 5 >