Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:
2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.
4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
Our water—for silver, have we drunk, our wood—for a price, cometh in.
5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.
11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!
12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.
13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.
14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.
16 The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:
18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.
19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:
20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?
21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us—exceedingly!
