Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
