Lamentations 5
1 to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *Q(K)*) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
2 inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
4 water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
5 upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
6 Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
8 servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
9 in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
11 woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
13 youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
14 old from gate to cease youth from music their
The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
15 to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
16 to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
18 upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
19 you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
20 to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
21 to return: rescue us LORD to(wards) you (and to return: rescue *Q(K)*) to renew day our like/as front: old
Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
22 that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much
But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
