Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

‌ʻE Sihova, ke ke manatu ki he meʻa kuo hoko kiate kimautolu: tokanga pea ke ʻafio ki homau taukae.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Kuo liliu homau tofiʻa ki he kau muli, ʻa homau ngaahi fale ki he ʻāuhē.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

Ko e kau faʻē mate mo tamai mate ʻakimautolu, ko ʻemau ngaahi faʻē kuo hangē kuo mate ʻa honau ngaahi husepāniti.

4 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

Kuo mau inu vai ʻi he totongi paʻanga, ko ʻemau fefie ʻoku fakatau kiate kimautolu.

5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.

‌ʻOku māʻulalo ʻa homau kia ki he fakatanga: ʻoku mau ngāue pea ʻoku ʻikai ha mālōlō.

6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Kuo mau fekuku nima mo e kau ʻIsipite, pea mo e kau ʻAsilia, ke mau mākona ʻi he mā.

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

Naʻe fai angahala ʻa ʻemau ngaahi tamai, pea ʻoku ʻikai, pea kuo mau fua ʻenau ngaahi hia.

8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.

Kuo pule ʻae kau tamaioʻeiki kiate kimautolu, ʻoku ʻikai ha niʻihi ʻoku fakahaofi ʻakimautolu mei honau nima.

9 We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Naʻa mau maʻu meʻakai ʻi he tuʻutāmaki ʻo ʻemau moʻui, koeʻuhi ko e heletā ʻi he toafa.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Naʻe ʻuliʻuli ʻa homau kili ʻo hangē ko e ngotoʻumu, ko e meʻa ʻi he honge fakamanavahē.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.

Naʻa nau tohotoho ʻae kau fefine ʻi Saione, ʻae kau tāupoʻou ʻi he ngaahi kolo ʻo Siuta.

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

‌ʻOku tautau ʻae ngaahi houʻeiki mei honau nima, naʻe ʻikai ke fakaʻapaʻapaʻi ʻae mata ʻoe kau mātuʻa.

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Naʻa nau ʻave ʻae kau talavou ke momosi, pea naʻe tō hifo ʻae tamaiki ʻi he lalo ʻakau.

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

Kuo ʻosi ʻae kau mātuʻa mei he matapā, ʻae kau talavou mei he fasi hiva.

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

Kuo ʻosi ʻae fiefia ʻa homau loto; kuo liliu ʻa ʻemau meʻe ko e mamahi.

16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!

Kuo tō ʻae tatā fakatuʻi mei homau ʻulu. ʻOiauē ʻakimautolu! He kuo mau fai angahala.

17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.

Koeʻuhi ko e meʻa ni ʻoku vaivai homau loto; koeʻuhi ko e ngaahi meʻa ni ʻoku nenefu homau mata.

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Koeʻuhi ko e moʻunga ʻo Saione, ʻaia ʻoku lala pē, ʻoku ʻaʻeva ai ʻae fanga fokisi.

19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

‌ʻE Sihova, ʻoku ke ʻafioʻi ʻo taʻengata, ko ho ʻafioʻanga ʻoku mei he toʻutangata ki he toʻutangata.

20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?

Ko e hā ʻoku ke fakangaloʻi ʻakimautolu ʻo taʻengata, pea mahuʻi meiate kimautolu ʻo fuoloa?

21 Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Fakatafokiʻi ʻakimautolu kiate koe, ʻE Sihova, pea te mau liliu moʻoni; fakafoʻou homau ngaahi ʻaho ʻo hangē ko ia ʻi muʻa.

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

Ka kuo ke mātuʻaki liʻaki ʻakimautolu; ʻoku ke houhau ʻaupito kiate kimautolu.