Lamentations 5
1 Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *Q(K)*) and see reproach our.
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *Q(K)*) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 At neck our we have been pursued we have become weary (and not *Q(K)*) it has been given rest to us.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Ancestors our they sinned (and not [are] they and we *Q(K)*) iniquities their we have borne.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 With life our we bring bread our because of [the] sword of the wilderness.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 It has fallen [the] crown of head our woe! please to us for we have sinned.
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Cause to return us O Yahweh - to yourself (so let us return *Q(K)*) renew days our like ancient time.
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
