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Lamentations 5
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
1Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
2Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
3We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
3Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers <FI>are<Fi> as widows.
3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
4We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
4Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
5For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured--there hath been no rest for us.
5We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
6<FI> To<Fi> Egypt we have given a hand, <FI>To<Fi> Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
6We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
7Our fathers have sinned--they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
10Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
11Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins--in cities of Judah.
11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
12Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.
13The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
14The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
14The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
15The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
15Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
16The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
16Fallen hath the crown <FI>from<Fi> our head, Woe <FI>is<Fi> now to us, for we have sinned.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.
17Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
17For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.
18Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
18For the mount of Zion--that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
19You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
19Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
20Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
20Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?