Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Yhwh, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
To Egypt do we stretch out our 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, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
The elders have ceased from the gate, young men, from their singing.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
19 Thou, O Yhwh, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Yhwh, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?
