Lamentations 5
1 Remember, YHWH, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
We are orphans; we are 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 we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, 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 the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers sinned; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
With the peril of our lives we get 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 is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens 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 the elders were not honored.
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing 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, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.
19 But you, YHWH, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?
21 Restore us to you, YHWH, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?
