Lamentationes 5
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
King James Version with Apocrypha
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 strangers, our houses to aliens.
3Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to 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 is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.
9We gat 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 was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Principes manu suspensi sunt; facies senum non erubuerunt.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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, that 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.
18Because of 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 , remainest for ever; thy throne 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.]
22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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