Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!
Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
3 We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
4 Our water we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.
We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
5 With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, and have no rest.
we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
7 Our fathers sinned; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.
Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
9 With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
11 Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.
They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; The faces of the elders were not honored.
Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
13 Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
14 The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
15 The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us, that we have sinned!
The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
17 For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
18 On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.
Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
19 But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?
Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
21 Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
22 For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?
For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.
