Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
3 We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.
We are become orphans without a 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: we have bought our wood.
5 With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, and have no rest.
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and 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 was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9 With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11 Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.
They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; The faces of the elders were not honored.
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
13 Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
15 The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us, that we have sinned!
The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
17 For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
18 On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
19 But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
21 Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
