Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
Remember, Yahweh, what has happened to us; look and see our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers; our houses to foreigners.
3 We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
We have become orphans, the fatherless, and our mothers are like widows.
4 Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
We must pay silver for the water we drink, and we must pay silver to get our own wood.
5 Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
Those who are coming after us are close behind us; we are weary and we can find no rest.
6 We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given ourselves to Egypt and to Assyria to get enough food.
7 Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
Our fathers sinned, and they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.
8 Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
9 Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
We get our bread only by risking our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
Our skin has grown as hot as an oven because of the burning heat of hunger.
11 They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
Women are raped in Zion, and virgins 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 are hung up by their own hands, and no honor is shown to the elders.
13 They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
Young men are forced to grind grain with a millstone, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
14 The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
The elders have left the city gate, and the young men have left their music.
15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart has ceased and our dancing has 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; woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes grow dim
18 Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
for Mount Zion lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
19 But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
But you, Yahweh, reign forever, and you will sit upon your throne from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
Why do you forget us forever? Why do you forsake us for so many days?
21 Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
Restore us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be restored. Renew our days as they were long ago—
22 But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
unless you have utterly rejected us and you are angry with us beyond measure.
