Lamentations 5
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
