Lamentations 5
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1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame!
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.5Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.14Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.15The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!16The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned!
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim:
18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.
19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation.
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long?
21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before,
22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit.
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