Lamentations 5
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
1[Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
2Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.
3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
3Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.
4We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
4Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.
5Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
5Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.
6We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
6Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.
7Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
7Patres nostri peccaverunt, et non sunt: et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus.
8Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
8Servi dominati sunt nostri: non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
9In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.
10Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
10Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.
11They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
11Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.
12Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
12Principes manu suspensi sunt; facies senum non erubuerunt.
13The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
13Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
14Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.
15The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
15Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster.
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
16Cecidit corona capitis nostri: væ nobis, quia peccavimus !
17For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
17Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,
18for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
18propter montem Sion quia disperiit; vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.
19You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
19Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.
20Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
20Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudine dierum?
21Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
21Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.
22But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
22Sed projiciens repulisti nos: iratus es contra nos vehementer.]
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