Lamentations 5
1 Remember, YHWH, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
O, Yehowa, ɖo ŋku nu si dzɔ ɖe mía dzi la dzi, ɖo ŋku anyi eye nàkpɔ míaƒe ŋukpe ɖa.
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Wotsɔ míaƒe domenyinu, na amedzrowo eye wotsɔ míaƒe aƒewo na du bubu me tɔwo.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
Míezu tsyɔ̃eviwo kple tɔmanɔsitɔwo eye mía nɔwo zu ahosiwo.
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
Ɖe míedzea tsi hafi nona eye ɖe míeƒlea míawo ŋutɔ ƒe nake.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
Ame siwo ti mía yome la gogo, ɖeɖi te mía ŋu, ke gbɔɖeme meli o.
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
Míetsɔ mía ɖokui dzra na Egipte kple Asiria be míakpɔ abolo aɖu.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
Mía fofowo wɔ nu vɔ̃ eye womegale agbe o gake woƒe tohehe va mía dzi.
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Kluviwo ɖu amegã ɖe mía dzi eye ame aɖeke meli axɔ mí le woƒe asi me o.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Míetsɔ míaƒe agbe ɖo anyi hafi kpɔa abolo ɖuna, le yi si le gbegbe la ta.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Míaƒe ŋutilã xɔ dzo abe kpodzo ene eye asrã lé mí le dɔwuame ta.
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Wogblẽ Zion nyɔnuwo kple ɖetugbi manyaŋutsuwo le Yuda duwo me.
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
Wobla dumegãwo tsɔ ku ati eye womede bubu ame tsitsiwo ŋu o.
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
Ɖekakpuiwo le te tum atraɖii, eye ŋutsuviwo le ŋeŋem le nakegba te.
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
Ame tsitsiwo vɔ le agbonu eye ɖekakpuiwo ƒe hadzidzi nu tso.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
Dzidzɔ vavã dzo le míaƒe dziwo me eye míaƒe ɣeɖuɖu trɔ zu nuxaxa.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
Fiakuku ge le ta na mí. Baba na mí elabena míewɔ nu vɔ̃!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
Le esia ta míaƒe dziwo le nu xam, le nu siawo ta míaƒe ŋkuwo dzi tsyɔ,
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
Elabena Zion to tsi ƒuƒlu eye amegaxiwo koe le fefem le afi ma.
19 But you, YHWH, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
O, Yehowa, èle fia ɖum tegbee, wò fiazikpui li ke tso dzidzime yi dzidzime.
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Nu ka ta nèŋlɔa mí be ɣe sia ɣi? Nu ka ta nègblẽ mi ɖi eteƒe didi alea?
21 Restore us to you, YHWH, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
O Yehowa, trɔ mí ɖe ɖokuiwò ŋu be míate ŋu atrɔ agbɔ, wɔ míaƒe ŋkekewo yeye abe le blema ene.
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
Ne menye ɖe nègbe mí keŋkeŋ, eye nèdo dziku ɖe mía ŋu wu ale si dze hã o.
