Lamentationes 5
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1[Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.
1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.
2Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
3Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.
3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
4Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.
4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.
5We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.
6We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7Patres nostri peccaverunt, et non sunt: et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servi dominati sunt nostri: non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.
8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.
9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.
10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.
11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12Principes manu suspensi sunt; facies senum non erubuerunt.
12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
13Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.
13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
14Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.
14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
15Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster.
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
16Cecidit corona capitis nostri: væ nobis, quia peccavimus !
16The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
17Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,
17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
18propter montem Sion quia disperiit; vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.
18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
19Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.
19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
20Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudine dierum?
20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
21Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.
21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
22Sed projiciens repulisti nos: iratus es contra nos vehementer.]
22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
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