Lamentations 5
1 Remember, YHWH, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
To Egypt do we stretch out our 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, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
At the peril of our life must we bring home 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 gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
Young men they bore to the mill, and boys 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, young men, from their singing.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
Fallen is the crown of 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 is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
19 But you, YHWH, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?
21 Restore us to you, YHWH, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old.
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?
