Lamentations 5

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.	1 Yahweh, remember what has happened to us; consider, and see our degradation.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.	2 Our heritage has passed to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.	3 We are orphans, we are fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.	4 We have to buy our own water to drink, our own wood we can get only at a price.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.	5 The yoke is on our necks; we are persecuted; exhausted we are, al owed no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.	6 We made a pact with Egypt, with Assyria, to have plenty of food.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.	7 Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear the weight of their guilt.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.	8 Slaves rule us; there is no one to rescue us from their clutches.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.	9 At peril of our lives we earn our bread, by risking the sword of the desert.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.	10 Our skin is as hot as an oven, from the scorch of famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.	11 The women in Zion have been raped, the young girls in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.	12 Princes have been hanged by their hands; the face of the old has won no respect.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.	13 Youths have been put to the mil , boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.	14 The elders have deserted the gateway; the young have given up their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.	15 Joy has vanished from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!	16 The crown has fallen from our heads. Alas that ever we sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.	17 This is why our hearts are sick; this is why our eyes are dim:
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.	18 because Mount Zion is desolate; jackals roam to and fro on it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.	19 Yet you, Yahweh, rule from eternity; your throne endures from age to age.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?	20 Why do you never remember us? Why do you abandon us so long?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.	21 Make us come back to you, Yahweh, and we will come back. Restore us as we were before!
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.	22 Unless you have utterly rejected us, in an anger which knows no limit.