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 upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *Q(K)*) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 At neck our we have been pursued we have become weary (and not *Q(K)*) it has been given rest to us.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, 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 have sinned, and are not; and 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 that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 With life our we bring bread our because of [the] sword of the wilderness.
We gat our bread with the peril 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 was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15 It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.
The joy of our heart is 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 is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Cause to return us O Yahweh - to yourself (so let us return *Q(K)*) renew days our like ancient time.
Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
