< Lamentations 5 >
1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *Q(K)*) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
2 Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
3 we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
6 Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
7 Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
9 We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
10 Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
11 They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
13 The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
14 And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
old from gate to cease youth from music their
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
16 The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
17 For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
18 Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
19 But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
20 Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
21 Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
to return: rescue us LORD to(wards) you (and to return: rescue *Q(K)*) to renew day our like/as front: old
22 For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.
that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much