Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
6 Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
9 We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
11 They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
14 And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
17 For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18 Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
19 But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
21 Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.
Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
