Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!
2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
3 We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.
4 Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
Our water we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5 Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, and have no rest.
6 We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
Our fathers sinned; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.
8 Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
9 Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
11 They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.
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 hand; The faces of the elders were not honored.
13 They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
14 The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.
16 The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
18 Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.
19 But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?
21 Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
22 But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?
