Lamentations 5
1 Rántí, Olúwa, ohun tí ó ṣẹlẹ̀ sí wa; wò ó, kí o sì rí ìtìjú wa.
Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
2 Àwọn ohun ìní wa ti di ti àlejò, ilé wa ti di ti àjèjì.
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
3 Àwa ti di aláìní òbí àti aláìní baba, àwọn ìyá wa ti di opó.
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
4 A gbọdọ̀ ra omi tí à ń mu; igi wa di títà fún wa.
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5 Àwọn tí ó ń lé wa súnmọ́ wa; àárẹ̀ mú wa àwa kò sì rí ìsinmi.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
6 Àwa jọ̀wọ́ ara wa fún Ejibiti àti Asiria láti rí oúnjẹ tó tó jẹ.
We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Àwọn baba wa ti ṣẹ̀, wọn kò sì ṣí mọ́, àwa sì ń ru ìjìyà ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ wọn.
Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
8 Àwọn ẹrú ń jẹ ọba lórí wa, kò sì ṣí ẹni tí yóò gbà wá lọ́wọ́ wọn.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
9 Àwa ń rí oúnjẹ wa nínú ewu ẹ̀mí wa nítorí idà tí ó wà ní aginjù.
Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
10 Ẹran-ara wa gbóná bí ààrò, ebi sì yó wa bí àárẹ̀.
Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
11 Wọ́n ti fipá bá àwọn obìnrin wa lòpọ̀ ní Sioni, àti àwọn wúńdíá ti o wa ní ìlú Juda.
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
12 Àwọn ọmọ ọbakùnrin ti di síso sókè ní ọwọ́ wọn; kò sí ìbọ̀wọ̀ fún àgbàgbà mọ́.
The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
13 Àwọn ọ̀dọ́mọkùnrin wa ru òkúta; àwọn ọmọkùnrin sì ń ṣàárẹ̀ lábẹ́ ẹrù igi.
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
14 Àwọn àgbàgbà ti lọ kúrò ní ẹnu-bodè ìlú; àwọn ọ̀dọ́mọkùnrin sì dákẹ́ orin wọn.
The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
15 Ayọ̀ ti ṣáko ní ọkàn wa; ọ̀fọ̀ sì ti dúró bí ijó fún wa.
The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
16 Adé ti ṣí kúrò ní orí wa ègbé ni fún wa, nítorí a ti ṣẹ̀.
The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
17 Nítorí èyí, àárẹ̀ mú ọkàn wa, nítorí èyí, ojú wa sì ṣú.
Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
18 Fún òkè Sioni tí ó ti di ahoro lórí rẹ̀ àwọn kọ̀lọ̀kọ̀lọ̀ sì ń rìn kiri.
Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
19 Ìwọ, Olúwa, jẹ ọba títí láé; ìjọba rẹ dúró láti ìran kan dé ìran mìíràn.
But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Kí ló dé tí o ń gbàgbé wa ní gbogbo ìgbà? Kí ló dé tí o fi kọ̀ wá sílẹ̀ fún ọjọ́ pípẹ́?
Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
21 Mú wa padà sí ọ̀dọ̀ rẹ, Olúwa, kí àwa kí ó le padà; mú ọjọ́ wa di tuntun bí ìgbàanì,
Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
22 àyàfi tí o bá ti kọ̀ wá sílẹ̀ pátápátá tí ìbínú rẹ sí wa sì kọjá ìwọ̀n.
But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.
