Lamentations 5

DOUAI-RHEIMS	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.	1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.	2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.	3 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.	4 We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought.
5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.	5 With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.	6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.	7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.	8 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.	9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.	10 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.	11 Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.	12 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.	13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.	14 The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.	15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.	16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,	17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.	18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.	19 But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.
20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?	20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?
21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.	21 Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.	22 Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?