Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:
to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *Q(K)*) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
2 Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
3 Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.
orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
4 Our water—for silver, have we drunk, our wood—for a price, cometh in.
water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
5 Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.
upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
6 To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
7 Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
8 Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
9 At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
10 Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.
skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
11 Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!
woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
12 Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.
ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
13 Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.
youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
14 Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
old from gate to cease youth from music their
15 Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.
to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
16 Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.
to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
17 For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:
upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
18 Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.
upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
19 Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:
you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
20 Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?
to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
21 Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;
to return: rescue us LORD to(wards) you (and to return: rescue *Q(K)*) to renew day our like/as front: old
22 For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us—exceedingly!
that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much
