< Lamentations 5 >
1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *Q(K)*) and see reproach our.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *Q(K)*) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
At neck our we have been pursued we have become weary (and not *Q(K)*) it has been given rest to us.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Ancestors our they sinned (and not [are] they and we *Q(K)*) iniquities their we have borne.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.
9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
With life our we bring bread our because of [the] sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
It has fallen [the] crown of head our woe! please to us for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.
19 You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.
20 Wherefore do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.
21 Turn you us unto you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Cause to return us O Yahweh - to yourself (so let us return *Q(K)*) renew days our like ancient time.
22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are very angry against us.
That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.