Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
3 Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money, Our wood comes for a price.
We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have labored—there has been no rest for us.
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6 [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned—they are not, We have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us, There is no deliverer from their hand.
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin as an oven has been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah.
They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 Princes have been hanged by their hand, Elderly faces have not been honored.
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
13 They have taken young men to grind, And youths have stumbled with wood.
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
14 Elderly have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
17 Our heart has been sick for this, Our eyes have been dim for these.
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
18 For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
19 You, O YHWH, remain for all time, Your throne to generation and generation.
But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
21 Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
