Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might 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 are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and 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] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, 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 was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
