איכה 5
| זְכֹר יְהֹוָה מֶֽה־הָיָה לָנוּ (הביט) [הַבִּיטָה] וּרְאֵה אֶת־חֶרְפָּתֵֽנוּ׃ | 1 |
Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.
| נַחֲלָתֵנוּ נֶֽהֶפְכָה לְזָרִים בָּתֵּינוּ לְנׇכְרִֽים׃ | 2 |
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
| יְתוֹמִים הָיִינוּ (אין) [וְאֵין] אָב אִמֹּתֵינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃ | 3 |
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
| מֵימֵינוּ בְּכֶסֶף שָׁתִינוּ עֵצֵינוּ בִּמְחִיר יָבֹֽאוּ׃ | 4 |
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
| עַל צַוָּארֵנוּ נִרְדָּפְנוּ יָגַעְנוּ (לא) [וְלֹא] הֽוּנַֽח־לָֽנוּ׃ | 5 |
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
| מִצְרַיִם נָתַנּוּ יָד אַשּׁוּר לִשְׂבֹּעַֽ לָֽחֶם׃ | 6 |
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
| אֲבֹתֵינוּ חָֽטְאוּ (אינם) [וְאֵינָם] (אנחנו) [וַאֲנַחְנוּ] עֲוֺנֹתֵיהֶם סָבָֽלְנוּ׃ | 7 |
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
| עֲבָדִים מָשְׁלוּ בָנוּ פֹּרֵק אֵין מִיָּדָֽם׃ | 8 |
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
| בְּנַפְשֵׁנוּ נָבִיא לַחְמֵנוּ מִפְּנֵי חֶרֶב הַמִּדְבָּֽר׃ | 9 |
We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
| עוֹרֵנוּ כְּתַנּוּר נִכְמָרוּ מִפְּנֵי זַלְעֲפוֹת רָעָֽב׃ | 10 |
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
| נָשִׁים בְּצִיּוֹן עִנּוּ בְּתֻלֹת בְּעָרֵי יְהוּדָֽה׃ | 11 |
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
| שָׂרִים בְּיָדָם נִתְלוּ פְּנֵי זְקֵנִים לֹא נֶהְדָּֽרוּ׃ | 12 |
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
| בַּחוּרִים טְחוֹן נָשָׂאוּ וּנְעָרִים בָּעֵץ כָּשָֽׁלוּ׃ | 13 |
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
| זְקֵנִים מִשַּׁעַר שָׁבָתוּ בַּחוּרִים מִנְּגִינָתָֽם׃ | 14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
| שָׁבַת מְשׂוֹשׂ לִבֵּנוּ נֶהְפַּךְ לְאֵבֶל מְחֹלֵֽנוּ׃ | 15 |
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
| נָֽפְלָה עֲטֶרֶת רֹאשֵׁנוּ אֽוֹי־נָא לָנוּ כִּי חָטָֽאנוּ׃ | 16 |
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
| עַל־זֶה הָיָה דָוֶה לִבֵּנוּ עַל־אֵלֶּה חָשְׁכוּ עֵינֵֽינוּ׃ | 17 |
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
| עַל הַר־צִיּוֹן שֶׁשָּׁמֵם שׁוּעָלִים הִלְּכוּ־בֽוֹ׃ | 18 |
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.
| אַתָּה יְהֹוָה לְעוֹלָם תֵּשֵׁב כִּסְאֲךָ לְדוֹר וָדֽוֹר׃ | 19 |
You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
| לָמָּה לָנֶצַח תִּשְׁכָּחֵנוּ תַּֽעַזְבֵנוּ לְאֹרֶךְ יָמִֽים׃ | 20 |
Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
| הֲשִׁיבֵנוּ יְהֹוָה ׀ אֵלֶיךָ (ונשוב) [וְֽנָשׁוּבָה] חַדֵּשׁ יָמֵינוּ כְּקֶֽדֶם׃ | 21 |
Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
| כִּי אִם־מָאֹס מְאַסְתָּנוּ קָצַפְתָּ עָלֵינוּ עַד־מְאֹֽד׃ השיבנו יהוה אליך ונשובה חדש ימינו כקדם | 22 |
But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.
