Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold 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.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] 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] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] 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 gat our bread with [the peril 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 was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] 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 are 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.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell 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 musick.
15 The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is 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, that 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 are dim.
18 because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne 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, [and] 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, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
