Lamentations 5
1 Lord, please remember what's happened to us. Look at us and see how we've been humiliated!
to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *Q(K)*) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
2 The land we used to own has been handed over to strangers, our houses have been given to foreigners.
inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
3 We have lost our fathers, and our mothers are widows.
orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
4 The water we drink we have to pay for; our firewood comes at a price.
water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
5 Like animals we're driven along with harnesses around our necks; we're worn out but don't find any rest.
upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
6 We allied ourselves with Egypt and Assyria so we could have plenty of food.
Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
7 Our forefathers sinned and they're gone, but we're being punished for their sins.
father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
8 Servants of our conqueror rule over us; no one can save us from their power.
servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
9 We take our lives in our hands when we look for food, because of the armed raiders in the desert.
in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
10 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever caused by hunger.
skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
11 They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; they show elders no respect.
ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
13 Young men are forced to work at hand-mills; boys stagger under bundles of wood.
youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
14 The elders have abandoned their places at the city gate; the young men have given up playing their music.
old from gate to cease youth from music their
15 There's no more happiness for us; our dancing has turned into mourning.
to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
16 The crown has fallen from our head. What a disaster has come upon us because we have sinned!
to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
17 Because of all this, we're sick at heart; because of all these things, we can hardly look;
upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
18 Because of Mount Zion, which has been abandoned, and where only foxes roam.
upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
19 But you, Lord, live forever! You rule for all generations!
you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
20 So why have you forgotten us for such a long time? Why have you abandoned us for so many years?
to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
21 Bring us back to you, Lord, so we can be with you again. Please remake our lives like they used to be.
to return: rescue us LORD to(wards) you (and to return: rescue *Q(K)*) to renew day our like/as front: old
22 Or have you have completely rejected us? Are you still really furious with us?
that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much
