Lamentations 5
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1O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. 1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5We are pursued--they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest. 5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment. 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power. 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside. 9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger. 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. 11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. 12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor. 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning. 15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears. 17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate. 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. 19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long? 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before, 21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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