Lamentations 5
1 Lord, haue thou mynde what bifelle to vs; se thou, and biholde oure schenschipe.
to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *Q(K)*) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
2 Oure eritage is turned to aliens, oure housis ben turned to straungers.
inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
3 We ben maad fadirles children with out fadir; oure modris ben as widewis.
orphan to be (and nothing *Q(K)*) father mother our like/as widow
4 We drunken oure watir for monei, we bouyten oure trees for siluer.
water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
5 We weren dryuun bi oure heedis, and reste was not youun to feynt men.
upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *Q(K)*) to rest to/for us
6 We yauen hond to Egipt, and to Assiriens, that we schulden be fillid with breed.
Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
7 Oure fadris synneden, and ben not, and we baren the wickidnessis of hem.
father our to sin (and nothing they and we *Q(K)*) iniquity: crime their to bear
8 Seruauntis weren lordis of vs, and noon was, that ayenbouyte fro the hond of hem.
servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
9 In oure lyues we brouyten breed to vs, fro the face of swerd in desert.
in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
10 Oure skynne is brent as a furneis, of the face of tempestis of hungur.
skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
11 Thei maden low wymmen in Sion, and virgyns in the citees of Juda.
woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
12 Princes weren hangid bi the hond; thei weren not aschamed of the faces of elde men.
ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
13 Thei mysusiden yonge wexynge men vnchastli, and children fellen doun in tree.
youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
14 Elde men failiden fro yatis; yonge men failiden of the queer of singeris.
old from gate to cease youth from music their
15 The ioie of oure herte failide; oure song is turned in to mourenyng.
to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
16 The coroun of oure heed fellen doun; wo to vs! for we synneden.
to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
17 Therfor oure herte is maad soreuful, therfor oure iyen ben maad derk.
upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
18 For the hil of Sion, for it perischide; foxis yeden in it.
upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
19 But thou, Lord, schal dwelle with outen ende; thi seete schal dwelle in generacioun and in to generacioun.
you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
20 Whi schalt thou foryete vs with outen ende, schalt thou forsake vs in to lengthe of daies?
to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
21 Lord, conuerte thou vs to thee, and we schal be conuertid; make thou newe oure daies, as at the bigynnyng.
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 castynge awei hast cast awei vs; thou art wrooth ayens vs greetli.
that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much
