Lamentations 5

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.	1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us, look, and see our disgrace:
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.	2 Our inherited lands have been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.	3 We have become orphans, fatherless; widowed are our mothers.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.	4 The water we drink we must buy, for our own wood we must pay.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.	5 On our necks is the yoke of those who drive us; we are worn out, but allowed no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.	6 To Egypt we submitted, and to Assyria, to fill our need of bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.	7 Our fathers, who sinned, are no more; but we bear their guilt.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.	8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their hands.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.	9 At the peril of our lives we bring in our sustenance, in the face of the desert heat;
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.	10 Our skin is shriveled up, as though by a furnace, with the searing blasts of famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.	11 The wives in Zion were ravished by the enemy, the maidens in the cities of Judah;
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.	12 Princes were gibbeted by them, elders shown no respect.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.	13 The youths carry the millstones, boys stagger under their loads of wood;
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.	14 The old men have abandoned the gate, the young men their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.	15 The joy of our hearts has ceased, our dance has turned into mourning;
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!	16 The garlands have fallen from our heads: woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.	17 Over this our hearts are sick, at this our eyes grow dim:
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.	18 That Mount Zion should be desolate, with jackals roaming there!
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.	19 You, O LORD, are enthroned forever; your throne stands from age to age.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?	20 Why, then, should you forget us, abandon us so long a time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.	21 Lead us back to you, O LORD, that we may be restored: give us anew such days as we had of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.	22 For now you have indeed rejected us, and in full measure turned your wrath against us.