Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.

Remember O Yahweh what? has it happened to us (look! *QK) and see reproach our.

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

Inheritance our it has been turned over to strangers houses our to foreigners.

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

Fatherless ones we have become (and there not *QK) [is] a father mothers our [are] like widows.

4 Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

Water our for money we have drunk wood our for a price they come.

5 Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

At neck our we have been pursued we have become weary (and not *QK) it has been given rest to us.

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

Egypt we have given a hand Assyria to be satisfied bread.

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

Ancestors our they sinned (and not [are] they and we *QK) iniquities their we have borne.

8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

Slaves they have ruled over us [is one who] rescues there not from hand their.

9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

With life our we bring bread our because of [the] sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

Skin our like an oven they have grown hot because of [the] burning heat of hunger.

11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

Women in Zion men have humiliated virgins in [the] cities of Judah.

12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

Princes by hand their they have been hanged [the] face of elders not they have been honored.

13 The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

Young men a mill they have lifted and young men with wood they have staggered.

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

Old [men] from [the] gate they have ceased young men from music their.

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

It has ceased [the] joy of heart our it has been changed into mourning dancing our.

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

It has fallen [the] crown of head our woe! please to us for we have sinned.

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

On this it has become faint heart our on these [things] they have grown dim eyes our.

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

On [the] mountain of Zion that [is] desolate foxes they have prowled on it.

19 Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

You O Yahweh for ever you will sit throne your [is] to a generation and a generation.

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

Why? to perpetuity do you forget us do you abandon? us for length of days.

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

Cause to return us O Yahweh - to yourself (so let us return *QK) renew days our like ancient time.

22 Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

That except certainly you have rejected us you are angry towards us up to muchness.