Lamentationes 5
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Berean Standard Bible
1[Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.
1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.
3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.
4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.
5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.
6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7Patres nostri peccaverunt, et non sunt: et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus.
7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8Servi dominati sunt nostri: non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.
8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.
9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.
10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.
11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12Principes manu suspensi sunt; facies senum non erubuerunt.
12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.
13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.
14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster.
15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16Cecidit corona capitis nostri: væ nobis, quia peccavimus !
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,
17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18propter montem Sion quia disperiit; vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.
18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.
19You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudine dierum?
20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.
21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22Sed projiciens repulisti nos: iratus es contra nos vehementer.]
22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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