Lamentations 5
1 Remember, YHWH, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured.
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 But you, YHWH, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Restore us to you, YHWH, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!
