Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might 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 are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing 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 to us, because we have sinned.
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
