Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *Q(K)*) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
2 Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
3 Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
4 We have drunk our water for money, Our wood comes for a price.
water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have labored—there has been no rest for us.
upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
6 [To] Egypt we have given a 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—they are not, We have borne their iniquities.
father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
8 Servants have ruled over us, There is no deliverer from their hand.
servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
9 With our lives we bring in 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 as an oven has been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah.
woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
12 Princes have been hanged by their hand, Elderly faces have not been honored.
ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
13 They have taken young men to grind, And youths have stumbled with wood.
youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
14 Elderly have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.
old from gate to cease youth from music their
15 The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
16 The crown has fallen [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
17 Our heart has been sick for this, Our eyes have been dim for these.
upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
18 For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
19 You, O YHWH, remain for all time, Your throne to generation and generation.
you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
20 Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!
to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
21 Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, And we turn back, 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 have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?
that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much
