Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *Q(K)*) and see reproach our.
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.
3 Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *Q(K)*) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.
4 Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.
5 Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
At neck our we have been pursued we have become weary (and not *Q(K)*) it has been given rest to us.
6 To Egypt do we stretch out our hand, to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
Ancestors our they sinned (and not [are] they and we *Q(K)*) iniquities their we have borne.
8 Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.
9 At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.
With life our we bring bread our because of [the] sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.
11 Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.
13 Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled 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, young men, from their singing.
Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.
15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.
16 Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
It has fallen [the] crown of head our woe! please to us for we have sinned.
17 Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.
18 Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.
19 O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.
You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.
20 Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?
Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.
21 Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: 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 For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?
That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.
