Lamentations 5

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