Lamentations 5
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honoured.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
