Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *Q(K)*) and see reproach our.
2 Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.
3 we are become orphans, we have no father, 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 drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.
5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had 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 Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: 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 to ransom [us] out of their hand.
Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.
9 We shall bring in our bread with [danger 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 is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.
11 They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honored.
Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.
13 The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.
14 And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.
15 The joy of our heart has 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 has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.
It has fallen [the] crown of head our woe! please to us for we have sinned.
17 For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.
18 Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.
19 But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.
20 Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.
21 Turn us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
Cause to return us O Yahweh - to yourself (so let us return *Q(K)*) renew days our like ancient time.
22 For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.
That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.
