Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
O, Yehowa, ɖo ŋku nu si dzɔ ɖe mía dzi la dzi, ɖo ŋku anyi eye nàkpɔ míaƒe ŋukpe ɖa.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Wotsɔ míaƒe domenyinu, na amedzrowo eye wotsɔ míaƒe aƒewo na du bubu me tɔwo.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
Míezu tsyɔ̃eviwo kple tɔmanɔsitɔwo eye mía nɔwo zu ahosiwo.
4 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
Ɖe míedzea tsi hafi nona eye ɖe míeƒlea míawo ŋutɔ ƒe nake.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
Ame siwo ti mía yome la gogo, ɖeɖi te mía ŋu, ke gbɔɖeme meli o.
6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Míetsɔ mía ɖokui dzra na Egipte kple Asiria be míakpɔ abolo aɖu.
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Mía fofowo wɔ nu vɔ̃ eye womegale agbe o gake woƒe tohehe va mía dzi.
8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
Kluviwo ɖu amegã ɖe mía dzi eye ame aɖeke meli axɔ mí le woƒe asi me o.
9 We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Míetsɔ míaƒe agbe ɖo anyi hafi kpɔa abolo ɖuna, le yi si le gbegbe la ta.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Míaƒe ŋutilã xɔ dzo abe kpodzo ene eye asrã lé mí le dɔwuame ta.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
Wogblẽ Zion nyɔnuwo kple ɖetugbi manyaŋutsuwo le Yuda duwo me.
12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
Wobla dumegãwo tsɔ ku ati eye womede bubu ame tsitsiwo ŋu o.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Ɖekakpuiwo le te tum atraɖii, eye ŋutsuviwo le ŋeŋem le nakegba te.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Ame tsitsiwo vɔ le agbonu eye ɖekakpuiwo ƒe hadzidzi nu tso.
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Dzidzɔ vavã dzo le míaƒe dziwo me eye míaƒe ɣeɖuɖu trɔ zu nuxaxa.
16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
Fiakuku ge le ta na mí. Baba na mí elabena míewɔ nu vɔ̃!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
Le esia ta míaƒe dziwo le nu xam, le nu siawo ta míaƒe ŋkuwo dzi tsyɔ,
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Elabena Zion to tsi ƒuƒlu eye amegaxiwo koe le fefem le afi ma.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
O, Yehowa, èle fia ɖum tegbee, wò fiazikpui li ke tso dzidzime yi dzidzime.
20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
Nu ka ta nèŋlɔa mí be ɣe sia ɣi? Nu ka ta nègblẽ mi ɖi eteƒe didi alea?
21 Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
O Yehowa, trɔ mí ɖe ɖokuiwò ŋu be míate ŋu atrɔ agbɔ, wɔ míaƒe ŋkekewo yeye abe le blema ene.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Ne menye ɖe nègbe mí keŋkeŋ, eye nèdo dziku ɖe mía ŋu wu ale si dze hã o.
