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| Lamentations 5:1 | Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. | Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame. |
| Lamentations 5:2 | Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. | Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen. |
| Lamentations 5:3 | We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. | We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows. |
| Lamentations 5:4 | We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. | We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price. |
| Lamentations 5:5 | Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. | Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest. |
| Lamentations 5:6 | We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. | We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread. |
| Lamentations 5:7 | Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. | Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us. |
| Lamentations 5:8 | Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. | Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands. |
| Lamentations 5:9 | We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. | We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land. |
| Lamentations 5:10 | Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. | Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food. |
| Lamentations 5:11 | They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. | They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah. |
| Lamentations 5:12 | Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. | Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured. |
| Lamentations 5:13 | The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. | The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood. |
| Lamentations 5:14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. | The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end. |
| Lamentations 5:15 | The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. | The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow. |
| Lamentations 5:16 | The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. | The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners. |
| Lamentations 5:17 | For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; | Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark; |
| Lamentations 5:18 | For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it. | Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it. |
| Lamentations 5:19 | Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. | You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal. |
| Lamentations 5:20 | Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time? | Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long? |
| Lamentations 5:21 | Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. | Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past. |
| Lamentations 5:22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us. | But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us. |
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