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