Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
5 We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
9 We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
11 They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
17 Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18 because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
19 But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
21 Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
