Lamentations 5

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