Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
4 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
9 We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?
21 Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
