Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!
2 Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
3 Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.
4 Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
Our water we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured — there hath been no rest for us.
With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, and have no rest.
6 [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
Our fathers sinned; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
Our skin is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in cities of Judah.
Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
Princes were hanged up by their hand; The faces of the elders were not honored.
13 Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
14 The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
The joy of our heart is at an end; Our dancing is turned into mourning.
16 Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
The crown is fallen from our head; Woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
For this is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
18 For the mount of Zion — that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.
19 Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth from generation to generation.
20 Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
Wherefore dost thou wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?
21 Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
22 For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us — exceedingly?
For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?
