Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
3 We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
4 We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.
We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
5 We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: 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 to ransom [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 shall bring in our bread with [danger 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 is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
11 They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honored.
13 They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
15 The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
The crown has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.
17 Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
18 because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
19 But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
20 Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?
Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
21 Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
Turn us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.
