Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
3 Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
4 Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.
5 Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
6 To Egypt do we stretch out our hand, to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
9 At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.
We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
11 Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
13 Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled under the wood.
They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, young men, from their singing.
The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
16 Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
18 Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
19 O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.
But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?
Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?
21 Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old.
Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?
But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
