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, O YHWH, what has befallen us, Look attentively, 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 to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
3 orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
Orphans we have been—without a father, 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 have drunk our water for money, Our wood comes for a price.
5 upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
For our neck we have been pursued, We have labored—there has been no rest for us.
6 Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
Our fathers have sinned—they are not, We have borne their iniquities.
8 servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
Servants have ruled over us, There is no deliverer from their hand.
9 in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
Our skin as an oven has been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
11 woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah.
12 ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
Princes have been hanged by their hand, Elderly faces have not been honored.
13 youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
They have taken young men to grind, And youths have stumbled with wood.
14 old from gate to cease youth from music their
Elderly have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.
15 to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
The crown has fallen [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
17 upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
Our heart has been sick for this, Our eyes have been dim for these.
18 upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
19 you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
You, O YHWH, remain for all time, Your throne to generation and 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? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!
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 back, O YHWH, to You, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
22 that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much
For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?
