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