Lamentations 5
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
19 But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?
21 Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
