Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
