Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
3 We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
5 To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured — there hath been no rest for us.
6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;
[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
8 Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
9 We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured.
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
13 The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.
Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;
For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
For the mount of Zion — that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
19 Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation.
Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
20 Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
21 Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
22 Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!
For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us — exceedingly?
