Lamentations 5
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1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame!
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.
3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows.
4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.
5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.5Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us.
6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food.
7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.
8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control.
9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.
10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.
13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood.
14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.14Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music.
15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.15The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges.
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!16The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned!
17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim:
18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.
19You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation.
20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long?
21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before,
22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit.
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