Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like 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 drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
6 Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
To Egypt do we stretch out our hand, to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
9 We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, 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 heat of famine.
11 They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, 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 honored.
13 The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
Young men they bore to the mill, and boys 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, young men, from their singing.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.
Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
18 Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
19 But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.
20 Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?
21 Turn us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old.
22 For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.
For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?
