Lamentations 5
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
19You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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