Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
Remember, O Yhwh, what is come upon us: consider, and behold 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:
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
We gat our bread with the peril 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 was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
Princes are 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.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell 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 musick.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that 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 are 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, the foxes walk upon it.
19 But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
Thou, O Yhwh, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Turn us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
Turn thou us unto thee, O Yhwh, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
