Lamentations 5

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

זְכֹר יְהוָה מֶה־הָיָה לָנוּ [הַבֵּיט כ] (הַבִּיטָה ק) וּרְאֵה אֶת־חֶרְפָּתֵנוּ׃ (1938)

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

נַחֲלָתֵנוּ נֶהֶפְכָה לְזָרִים בָּתֵּינוּ לְנָכְרִים׃ (1809)

See also: Isaiah 1:7, Jeremiah 17:4, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Zephaniah 1:13, Deuteronomy 28:30-68, Psalms 79:1-2, Deuteronomy 28:48, Isaiah 5:17, Isaiah 63:18, Jeremiah 6:12, Jeremiah 9:19, Ezekiel 7:21, Ezekiel 7:24

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

יְתֹומִים הָיִינוּ [אֵין כ] (וְאֵין ק) אָב אִמֹּתֵינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֹות׃ (1892)

See also: Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, John 14:18, Psalms 109:9, Jeremiah 15:8, Hosea 14:3, Jeremiah 6:12

4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

מֵימֵינוּ בְּכֶסֶף שָׁתִינוּ עֵצֵינוּ בִּמְחִיר יָבֹאוּ׃ (1589)

See also: Judges 5:11, Isaiah 3:1, Deuteronomy 28:48, Ezekiel 4:9-17, Isaiah 55:1

5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

עַל צַוָּארֵנוּ נִרְדָּפְנוּ יָגַעְנוּ [לֹא כ] (וְלֹא ק) הוּנַח־לָנוּ׃ (1325)

See also: Psalms 18:39, Micah 2:3, Nehemiah 9:36-37, Lamentations 1:14, Deuteronomy 28:48, Jeremiah 27:8, Jeremiah 27:11-12, Jeremiah 28:14, Deuteronomy 28:65-66, Psalms 107:12, Jeremiah 13:9, Jeremiah 27:2, Lamentations 3:7, Lamentations 4:19, Matthew 11:29, Acts 15:10

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

מִצְרַיִם נָתַנּוּ יָד אַשּׁוּר לִשְׂבֹּעַ לָחֶם׃ (1887)

See also: Hosea 9:3, Hosea 12:1, Genesis 24:2, Genesis 47:19, Jeremiah 2:18, Jeremiah 2:36, Jeremiah 50:15, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 7:11, 2 Kings 10:15, Ezra 10:19, Job 15:23, Isaiah 30:1-6, Isaiah 31:1-3, Isaiah 57:9, Jeremiah 44:12-14, Ezekiel 17:18

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

אֲבֹתֵינוּ חָטְאוּ [אֵינָם כ] (וְאֵינָם ק) [אֲנַחְנוּ כ] (וַאֲנַחְנוּ ק) עֲוֹנֹתֵיהֶם סָבָלְנוּ׃ (1906)

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

עֲבָדִים מָשְׁלוּ בָנוּ פֹּרֵק אֵין מִיָּדָם׃ (1095)

See also: Nehemiah 5:15, Proverbs 30:22, Zechariah 11:6, Psalms 7:2, Jeremiah 5:19, Genesis 9:25, Deuteronomy 28:29, Deuteronomy 28:43, Nehemiah 2:19, Job 5:4, Job 10:7, Psalms 50:22, Isaiah 43:13, Hosea 2:10

9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

בְּנַפְשֵׁנוּ נָבִיא לַחְמֵנוּ מִפְּנֵי חֶרֶב הַמִּדְבָּר׃ (1326)

See also: Judges 5:11, Ezekiel 4:16-17, Genesis 47:19, Psalms 59:15, Jeremiah 40:9-12, Ezekiel 12:18-19, Judges 6:11, 2 Samuel 23:17, Job 15:23, Jeremiah 41:1-10, Jeremiah 41:18, Jeremiah 42:14, Jeremiah 42:16

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

עֹורֵנוּ כְּתַנּוּר נִכְמָרוּ מִפְּנֵי זַלְעֲפֹות רָעָב׃ (2369)

See also: Lamentations 4:8, Job 30:30, Psalms 119:83, Genesis 43:1, Deuteronomy 28:16, Deuteronomy 32:24, Job 19:20, Psalms 32:4, Jeremiah 14:2, Jeremiah 37:21, Jeremiah 52:6, Lamentations 3:4, Ezekiel 17:14, Revelation 6:5

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

נָשִׁים בְּצִיֹּון עִנּוּ בְּתֻלֹת בְּעָרֵי יְהוּדָה׃ (1828)

See also: Isaiah 13:16, Zechariah 14:2, Deuteronomy 28:30, Jeremiah 38:22, Jeremiah 1:15, Jeremiah 6:12, Lamentations 3:51, Amos 7:17, Zechariah 8:4

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

שָׂרִים בְּיָדָם נִתְלוּ פְּנֵי זְקֵנִים לֹא נֶהְדָּרוּ׃ (1735)

See also: Leviticus 19:32, Lamentations 4:16, Isaiah 47:6, Isaiah 24:2, Lamentations 4:2, Isaiah 3:2, Jeremiah 39:6-7, Jeremiah 52:10-11, Jeremiah 52:25-27, Lamentations 1:8, Lamentations 1:19, Lamentations 2:6, Lamentations 2:10, Lamentations 2:20, Ezekiel 19:1

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

בַּחוּרִים טְחֹון נָשָׂאוּ וּנְעָרִים בָּעֵץ כָּשָׁלוּ׃ (1590)

See also: Judges 16:21, Isaiah 51:20, Matthew 23:4, Exodus 1:11, Exodus 2:11, Exodus 11:5, Exodus 23:5, Nehemiah 5:1-5, Job 31:10, Isaiah 47:2, Isaiah 52:5, Isaiah 58:6, Lamentations 1:4

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

זְקֵנִים מִשַּׁעַר שָׁבָתוּ בַּחוּרִים מִנְּגִינָתָם׃ (2384)

See also: Jeremiah 7:34, Psalms 137:4, Ruth 4:2, Isaiah 24:7-11, Ezekiel 26:13, Revelation 18:22, Deuteronomy 16:18, Job 29:7-17, Job 30:1, Job 30:31, Isaiah 3:2-3, Isaiah 24:11, Jeremiah 16:9, Jeremiah 25:10, Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:19, Lamentations 2:10

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

שָׁבַת מְשֹׂושׂ לִבֵּנוּ נֶהְפַּךְ לְאֵבֶל מְחֹלֵנוּ׃ (1788)

See also: Job 30:31, Amos 8:10, Jeremiah 25:10, James 4:9, Exodus 32:19, 2 Chronicles 12:2, Psalms 30:11, Amos 6:4-7, Psalms 107:11

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

נָפְלָה עֲטֶרֶת רֹאשֵׁנוּ אֹוי־נָא לָנוּ כִּי חָטָאנוּ׃ (1659)

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

עַל־זֶה הָיָה דָוֶה לִבֵּנוּ עַל־אֵלֶּה חָשְׁכוּ עֵינֵינוּ׃ (901)

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

עַל הַר־צִיֹּון שֶׁשָּׁמֵם שׁוּעָלִים הִלְּכוּ־בֹו׃ (1666)

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

אַתָּה יְהוָה לְעֹולָם תֵּשֵׁב כִּסְאֲךָ לְדֹר וָדֹור׃ (1861)

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

לָמָּה לָנֶצַח תִּשְׁכָּחֵנוּ תַּעַזְבֵנוּ לְאֹרֶךְ יָמִים׃ (1923)

See also: Psalms 13:1, Mark 15:34, Psalms 44:24, Job 7:21, Isaiah 2:6, Jeremiah 14:19-21, 1 Samuel 12:22, 2 Kings 21:14, Psalms 74:1, Psalms 77:7-10, Psalms 79:5, Psalms 85:5, Psalms 89:46, Psalms 94:3-4, Isaiah 6:12, Isaiah 49:14, Isaiah 64:9-12, Jeremiah 23:39

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

הֲשִׁיבֵנוּ יְהוָה ׀ אֵלֶיךָ [וְנָשׁוּב כ] (וְנָשׁוּבָה ק) חַדֵּשׁ יָמֵינוּ כְּקֶדֶם׃ (1905)

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

כִּי אִם־מָאֹס מְאַסְתָּנוּ קָצַפְתָּ עָלֵינוּ עַד־מְאֹד׃ (1684)

See also: Jeremiah 14:19, Psalms 60:1-2, Hosea 1:6, Psalms 44:9, Isaiah 5:25, Isaiah 64:9, Jeremiah 6:30, Jeremiah 15:1-5, Ezekiel 37:11, Matthew 22:11