Lamentations 5

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

Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.

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

Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.

3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.

4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.

5We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.

Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.

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

Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.

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

Patres nostri peccaverunt, et non sunt: et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus.

8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Servi dominati sunt nostri: non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.

9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.

10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.

11They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.

12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

Principes manu suspensi sunt; facies senum non erubuerunt.

13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.

14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.

15The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.

Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster.

16The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

Cecidit corona capitis nostri: væ nobis, quia peccavimus !

17Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,

18For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

propter montem Sion quia disperiit; vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.

19But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.

Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.

20Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudine dierum?

21Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.

22But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.

Sed projiciens repulisti nos: iratus es contra nos vehementer.