Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
We have drunk our water for money, Our wood comes for a price.
5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given 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, that we might 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 borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned—they are not, We have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
Servants have ruled over us, There is no deliverer from their hand.
9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
Our skin as an oven has been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah.
12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
Princes have been hanged by their hand, Elderly faces have not been honored.
13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
They have taken young men to grind, And youths have stumbled with wood.
14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
Elderly have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
The crown has fallen [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
Our heart has been sick for this, Our eyes have been dim for these.
18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
You, O YHWH, remain for all time, Your throne to generation and generation.
20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou 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 thee, 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 thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?
