Lamentations 5
1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
μνήσθητι κύριε ὅ τι ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν ἐπίβλεψον καὶ ἰδὲ τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν ἡμῶν
2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
κληρονομία ἡμῶν μετεστράφη ἀλλοτρίοις οἱ οἶκοι ἡμῶν ξένοις
3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
ὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατήρ μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι
4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
ἐξ ἡμερῶν ἡμῶν ξύλα ἡμῶν ἐν ἀλλάγματι ἦλθεν
5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἡμῶν ἐδιώχθημεν ἐκοπιάσαμεν οὐκ ἀνεπαύθημεν
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
Αἴγυπτος ἔδωκεν χεῖρα Ασσουρ εἰς πλησμονὴν αὐτῶν
7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἥμαρτον οὐχ ὑπάρχουσιν ἡμεῖς τὰ ἀνομήματα αὐτῶν ὑπέσχομεν
8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
δοῦλοι ἐκυρίευσαν ἡμῶν λυτρούμενος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν
9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν εἰσοίσομεν ἄρτον ἡμῶν ἀπὸ προσώπου ῥομφαίας τῆς ἐρήμου
10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
τὸ δέρμα ἡμῶν ὡς κλίβανος ἐπελειώθη συνεσπάσθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου καταιγίδων λιμοῦ
11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
γυναῖκας ἐν Σιων ἐταπείνωσαν παρθένους ἐν πόλεσιν Ιουδα
12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
ἄρχοντες ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν ἐκρεμάσθησαν πρεσβύτεροι οὐκ ἐδοξάσθησαν
13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
ἐκλεκτοὶ κλαυθμὸν ἀνέλαβον καὶ νεανίσκοι ἐν ξύλῳ ἠσθένησαν
14 The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
καὶ πρεσβῦται ἀπὸ πύλης κατέπαυσαν ἐκλεκτοὶ ἐκ ψαλμῶν αὐτῶν κατέπαυσαν
15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
κατέλυσεν χαρὰ καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐστράφη εἰς πένθος ὁ χορὸς ἡμῶν
16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
ἔπεσεν ὁ στέφανος τῆς κεφαλῆς ἡμῶν οὐαὶ δὴ ἡμῖν ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν
17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
περὶ τούτου ἐγενήθη ὀδυνηρὰ ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν περὶ τούτου ἐσκότασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν
18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
ἐπ’ ὄρος Σιων ὅτι ἠφανίσθη ἀλώπεκες διῆλθον ἐν αὐτῇ
19 You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
σὺ δέ κύριε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατοικήσεις ὁ θρόνος σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν
20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
ἵνα τί εἰς νεῖκος ἐπιλήσῃ ἡμῶν καταλείψεις ἡμᾶς εἰς μακρότητα ἡμερῶν
21 Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς κύριε πρὸς σέ καὶ ἐπιστραφησόμεθα καὶ ἀνακαίνισον ἡμέρας ἡμῶν καθὼς ἔμπροσθεν
22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
ὅτι ἀπωθούμενος ἀπώσω ἡμᾶς ὠργίσθης ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς ἕως σφόδρα
