Lamentations 5
1 Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *Q(K)*) and see reproach our.
Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
2 Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.
Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
3 Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *Q(K)*) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
4 Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.
We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
5 At neck our we have been pursued we have become weary (and not *Q(K)*) it has been given rest to us.
we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
6 Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.
Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
7 Ancestors our they sinned (and not [are] they and we *Q(K)*) iniquities their we have borne.
Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
8 Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
9 With life our we bring bread our 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 Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.
Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
11 Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.
They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.
Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
13 Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.
The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
14 Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.
And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
15 It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 It has fallen [the] crown of head our woe! please to us for we have sinned.
The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
17 On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.
For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
18 On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.
Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
19 You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.
But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
20 Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.
Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
21 Cause to return us O Yahweh - to yourself (so let us return *Q(K)*) renew days our like ancient time.
Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
22 That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.
For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.
