Lamentations 5
1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.
19 You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.
