Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 We have drunk our water for money, Our wood comes for a price.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have labored—there has been no rest for us.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned—they are not, We have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us, There is no deliverer from their hand.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Our skin as an oven has been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Princes have been hanged by their hand, Elderly faces have not been honored.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 They have taken young men to grind, And youths have stumbled with wood.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 Elderly have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 Our heart has been sick for this, Our eyes have been dim for these.
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 You, O YHWH, remain for all time, Your throne to generation and generation.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
