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Lamentations 5
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1Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3we are become orphans , we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We shall bring in our bread with [danger 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 is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honored.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
19Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20Therefore will you utterly forget us , and abandon us a long time?
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21Turn us , O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
21Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.
22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.