Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Oh Thixo, khumbula okusehleleyo khangela ubone ukuyangeka kwethu.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Ilifa lethu seliphiwe abezizweni, imizi yethu yathathwa ngabemzini.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Sesizintandane ezingelaboyise, omama sebenjengabafelokazi.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
Amanzi okunatha siyawathenga; inkuni zethu zikhutshelwa imali.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
Labo abasixotshayo basihlezi ezithende; sikhathele asilakuphumula.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Sazinikela kwabeGibhithe labe-Asiriya ukuze sizuze isinkwa.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Okhokho benza isono kodwa kabasekho, thina yithi esesijeziswa.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
Sibuswa yizigqili, kakho osikhululayo ezandleni zazo.
9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Isinkwa sisithola ngendlela eyingozi ngenxa yenkemba ekhona enkangala.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Isikhumba sethu sitshisa njengeziko, silomkhuhlane wendlala.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Abesifazane bayahlukuluzwa eZiyoni kanye lezintombi ezigcweleyo emadolobheni akoJuda.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
Amakhosi alengisiwe ngezandla zawo; abadala abasahlonitshwa.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Izinsizwa ziyahoqiswa ematsheni okuchola; abafana babhensiswa yimithwalo yenkuni.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Abadala sebesukile esangweni lomuzi; izinsizwa sezithule ukuhlabelela.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Ukuthokoza akusekho ezinhliziyweni zethu; ukugida kwethu sekuphenduke ukukhala.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
Umqhele usuwile ekhanda lethu. Maye thina, ngoba sonile!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Ngenxa yalokhu inhliziyo zethu zibuthakathaka; ngenxa yalezizinto amehlo ethu ayafiphala,
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.
ngoba intaba iZiyoni silugwadule, sekucathama amakhanka kuyo.
19 You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
Wena, Oh Thixo, busa nini lanini; ubukhosi bakho buhlezi kuzozonke izizukulwane.
20 Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Kungani uhlezi usikhohlwa? Usifulathelelani isikhathi eside kangaka na?
21 Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Sibuyisele kuwe, Oh Thixo, ukuze siphenduke; buyisa kabutsha insuku zethu njengezakudala,
22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.
ngaphandle kokuba nxa ususilahle kokuphela wasizondela ngokungalinganisekiyo.
