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Lamentations 5
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
1Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
2Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
2Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
3We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
4Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
4We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
5We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
5Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
5Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
6We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
6We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
6We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
7Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
7Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
8Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
8Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
9We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
9We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
10Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
11They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
11They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.
12Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
12Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
13The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
13The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
14The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
15The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
15The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
16The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
17Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
18Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
19Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
19You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
20Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?