Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
3 We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
4 Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
5 Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
6 We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
7 Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
8 Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
9 Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
11 They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
13 They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
14 The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
17 Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
18 Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
19 But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
20 Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
21 Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
22 But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.
