Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
Orphans we have been—without a 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 comes for a price.
5 We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
For our neck we have been pursued, We have labored—there has been no rest for us.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [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—they 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 no deliverer from their hand.
9 We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
With our lives we bring in our bread, 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 as an oven has been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
11 They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah.
12 The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
Princes have been hanged by their hand, Elderly faces have not been honored.
13 They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
They have taken young men to grind, And youths have stumbled with wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
Elderly have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.
15 The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
The crown has fallen [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
17 Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
Our heart has been sick for this, Our eyes have been dim for these.
18 because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
19 But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
You, O YHWH, remain for all time, Your throne to generation and generation.
20 Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?
Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!
21 Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?
