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 drank our water for money; our wood is sold to 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 labor, [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 procured 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 were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
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 music.
15 It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.
The joy of our heart hath 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 to 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.
Why 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 to 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.
