Lamentations 5
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
World English Bible
1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
1Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.
4We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
5To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
5Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;
6We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
7Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
8Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
9We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
10Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
11They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
11They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured.
12Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
13The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.
13The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
15The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;
17For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
18for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
19Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation.
19You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
20Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
20Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
21Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
21Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
22Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!
22But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
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