Lamentations 5

1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.

1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

6We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

13The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

15The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

19Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?

20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

21Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

21Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

22Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.