Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to 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] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
13 The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.
19 Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.
