Lamentations 5
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1LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced!1O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
4We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.5We are pursued--they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive.6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.
8Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside.9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.
10The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
11Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
12Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt.12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
13Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
14The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.
15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
16The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned.16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
17Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.17Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.
18For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.18For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.
19But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
20Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long?20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
21Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had!21Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before,
22Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still?22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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