Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured — there hath been no rest for us.
6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
9 We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
For the mount of Zion — that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
21 Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us — exceedingly?
