Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

μνήσθητι κύριε ὅ τι ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν ἐπίβλεψον καὶ ἰδὲ τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν ἡμῶν

2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

κληρονομία ἡμῶν μετεστράφη ἀλλοτρίοις οἱ οἶκοι ἡμῶν ξένοις

3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

ὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατήρ μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι

4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

ἐξ ἡμερῶν ἡμῶν ξύλα ἡμῶν ἐν ἀλλάγματι ἦλθεν

5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἡμῶν ἐδιώχθημεν ἐκοπιάσαμεν οὐκ ἀνεπαύθημεν

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Αἴγυπτος ἔδωκεν χεῖρα Ασσουρ εἰς πλησμονὴν αὐτῶν

7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἥμαρτον οὐχ ὑπάρχουσιν ἡμεῖς τὰ ἀνομήματα αὐτῶν ὑπέσχομεν

8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

δοῦλοι ἐκυρίευσαν ἡμῶν λυτρούμενος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν εἰσοίσομεν ἄρτον ἡμῶν ἀπὸ προσώπου ῥομφαίας τῆς ἐρήμου

10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

τὸ δέρμα ἡμῶν ὡς κλίβανος ἐπελειώθη συνεσπάσθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου καταιγίδων λιμοῦ

11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

γυναῖκας ἐν Σιων ἐταπείνωσαν παρθένους ἐν πόλεσιν Ιουδα

12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

ἄρχοντες ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν ἐκρεμάσθησαν πρεσβύτεροι οὐκ ἐδοξάσθησαν

13 The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

ἐκλεκτοὶ κλαυθμὸν ἀνέλαβον καὶ νεανίσκοι ἐν ξύλῳ ἠσθένησαν

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

καὶ πρεσβῦται ἀπὸ πύλης κατέπαυσαν ἐκλεκτοὶ ἐκ ψαλμῶν αὐτῶν κατέπαυσαν

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

κατέλυσεν χαρὰ καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐστράφη εἰς πένθος ὁ χορὸς ἡμῶν

16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

ἔπεσεν ὁ στέφανος τῆς κεφαλῆς ἡμῶν οὐαὶ δὴ ἡμῖν ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν

17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

περὶ τούτου ἐγενήθη ὀδυνηρὰ ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν περὶ τούτου ἐσκότασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν

18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

ἐπ’ ὄρος Σιων ὅτι ἠφανίσθη ἀλώπεκες διῆλθον ἐν αὐτῇ

19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

σὺ δέ κύριε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατοικήσεις ὁ θρόνος σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?

ἵνα τί εἰς νεῖκος ἐπιλήσῃ ἡμῶν καταλείψεις ἡμᾶς εἰς μακρότητα ἡμερῶν

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς κύριε πρὸς σέ καὶ ἐπιστραφησόμεθα καὶ ἀνακαίνισον ἡμέρας ἡμῶν καθὼς ἔμπροσθεν

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.

ὅτι ἀπωθούμενος ἀπώσω ἡμᾶς ὠργίσθης ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς ἕως σφόδρα