< Lamentations 5 >

1 Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *Q(K)*) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
3 Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
4 Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
5 Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
6 To Egypt do we stretch out our hand, to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
8 Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
9 At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.
in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
11 Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
13 Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled under the wood.
youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, young men, from their singing.
old from gate to cease youth from music their
15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
16 Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
17 Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
18 Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
19 O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.
you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
20 Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?
to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
21 Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old.
to return: rescue us LORD to(wards) you (and to return: rescue *Q(K)*) to renew day our like/as front: old
22 For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?
that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much

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