Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Remember, O LORD, what has 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 strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money, Our wood comes for a price.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have labored—there has been no rest for us.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 [To] Egypt we have given a 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—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 is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
9 With our lives we bring in 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 as an oven has been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes have been hanged by their hand, Elderly faces have not been honored.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They have taken young men to grind, And youths have stumbled with wood.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 Elderly have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance 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 unto us, that we have sinned!
17 Our heart has been sick for this, Our eyes have been dim for these.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 You, O YHWH, remain for all time, Your throne to generation and generation.
You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
20 Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!
Wherefore do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
Turn you us unto you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?
But you have utterly rejected us; you are very angry against us.
