Lamentations 5
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured — there hath been no rest for us.
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
For the mount of Zion — that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
19 But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
21 Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us — exceedingly?
