1 Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. YLT — Lamentations 5:1
2 Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. YLT — Lamentations 5:2
3 Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows. YLT — Lamentations 5:3
4 Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. YLT — Lamentations 5:4
5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured — there hath been no rest for us. YLT — Lamentations 5:5
6 [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. YLT — Lamentations 5:6
7 Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne. YLT — Lamentations 5:7
8 Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand. YLT — Lamentations 5:8
9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. YLT — Lamentations 5:9
10 Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. YLT — Lamentations 5:10
11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in cities of Judah. YLT — Lamentations 5:11
12 Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. YLT — Lamentations 5:12
13 Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled. YLT — Lamentations 5:13
14 The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. YLT — Lamentations 5:14
15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. YLT — Lamentations 5:15
16 Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned. YLT — Lamentations 5:16
17 For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim. YLT — Lamentations 5:17
18 For the mount of Zion — that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it. YLT — Lamentations 5:18
19 Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation. YLT — Lamentations 5:19
20 Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days! YLT — Lamentations 5:20
21 Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old. YLT — Lamentations 5:21
22 For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us — exceedingly? YLT — Lamentations 5:22