Lamentations 5 Parallel Bible Translations

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Bishops' Bible of 1568
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1 Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion. Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace! Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
2 Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
3 We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes. We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.
4 We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money. We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
5 Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest. Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest. Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
6 Aforetime we yeelded our selues to the Egyptians, and nowe to the Assyrians, onlye that we might haue bread inough. We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 Our fathers (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse. Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
8 Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes. Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.
9 We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse. We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger. Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
11 The wiues are rauished in Sion, and the maydens in the cities of Iuda. Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 The princes are hanged vp with the hand of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men. Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
13 They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood. Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood. Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke. The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music. The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning. The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore. The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme. For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
18 Because of the hill of Sion that is destroyed: insomuch that the foxes runne vpon it. for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
19 But thou O Lorde, that remaynest for euer, and thy seate worlde without ende: But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations. You, LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long? Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
21 O Lord turne thou vs vnto thee, and so shall we be turned, renue our dayes as in olde tymes: Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old— Restore us to yourself, LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old
22 But thou hast banished vs vtterly, and hast ben displeased at vs. unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us. unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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