Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 Our water—for silver, have we drunk, our wood—for a price, cometh in.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us—exceedingly!
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
