Lamentations 5
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1LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame!
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.
3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows.
4We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.
5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given 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 food to survive.6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food.
7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin.
8Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control.
9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.
10The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
11Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
12Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.
13Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood.
14The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.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 garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.16The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned!
17Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim:
18For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.
19But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation.
20Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long?20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long?
21Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had!21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before,
22Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still?22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit.
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