Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.

to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *QK) and to see: see [obj] reproach our

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.

inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign

3 We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.

orphan to be (and nothing *QK) father mother our like/as widow

4 We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.

water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring

5 We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.

upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *QK) to rest to/for us

6 We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.

Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread

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

father our to sin (and nothing they and we *QK) iniquity: crime their to bear

8 Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.

servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their

9 We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.

in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness

10 Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.

skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine

11 They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.

woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah

12 The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.

ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor

13 They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.

youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble

14 The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.

old from gate to cease youth from music their

15 The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.

to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our

16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.

to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin

17 Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:

upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our

18 because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.

upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him

19 But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.

you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation

20 Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?

to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day

21 Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.

to return: rescue us LORD to(wards) you (and to return: rescue *QK) to renew day our like/as front: old

22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.

that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much