< Lamentations 5 >
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *Q(K)*) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
4 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
9 We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
old from gate to cease youth from music their
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
21 Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
to return: rescue us LORD to(wards) you (and to return: rescue *Q(K)*) to renew day our like/as front: old
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much