Lamentationes 5
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1[Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.
1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
2Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.
2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
3Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.
3We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.
4We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.
5Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.
5To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
6Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.
6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough;
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 rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.
9We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.
10Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
11Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.
11They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
12Principes manu suspensi sunt; facies senum non erubuerunt.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured.
13Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.
13The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.
14Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16Cecidit corona capitis nostri: væ nobis, quia peccavimus !
16The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.
17Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,
17For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim;
18propter montem Sion quia disperiit; vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.
18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.
19Thou, O LORD, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation.
20Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudine dierum?
20Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.
21Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22Sed projiciens repulisti nos: iratus es contra nos vehementer.]
22Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!
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