Lamentations 5
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1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.1Yahweh, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.3We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.4We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.5We are closely pursued; we are tired, and no one offers us rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.6We made a treaty with Egypt and with Assyria, to get enough food.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.7Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.8Slaves rule over us; no one rescues us from their hands.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.9We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.10Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.11Women are raped in Zion, girls in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.12Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.13Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.14The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.17Because of this, our heart is sick; because of these, our eyes grow dim:
18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it.
19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.19You, LORD, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?20Why have You forgotten us forever, abandoned us for our entire lives?
21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.21 LORD, restore us to Yourself, so we may return; renew our days as in former times,
22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.22unless You have completely rejected us and are intensely angry with us.
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