ABP - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O lord, what happened to us! Look upon and behold our scorn!

5:2  Our inheritance was converted over to aliens; our houses to strangers.

5:3  [2orphans 1We were]; there does not exist a father; our mothers are as widows.

5:4  [2our water 3for 4money 1We drank]; our wood [2in 3barter 1came].

5:5  Unto our neck we were pursued; we tired; we were not rested.

5:6  Egypt gave a hand; Assyria for their plenty.

5:7  Our fathers sinned, and they do not exist; we [2their violations of the law 1underwent].

5:8  Servants lorded over us; [2one ransoming 1there is not] from out of their hand.

5:9  With our lives we will carry in our bread from in front of the broadsword of the wilderness.

5:10  Our skin [2as 3an oven 1was darkened]; they were made to shrivel from the face of blasts of famine.

5:11  [2women 3in 4Zion 1They abased], virgins in the cities of Judah.

5:12  Rulers [2by 3their hands 1were hanged]; elders were not extolled;

5:13  chosen men [2weeping 1took up], and young men [2in 3wood bearing 1weakened].

5:14  And old men [2from 3the gate 1ceased]; chosen men [2from 3their psalms 1ceased].

5:15  [3rested up 1Joy 2of our heart]; [2turned 3into 4mourning 1our dance].

5:16  [4fell 1The 2crown 3of our head]; and woe to us for we sinned.

5:17  On account of this [4became 1grief 5grievous 2in 3our heart]; on account of this, [2darkened 1our eyes].

5:18  Upon mount Zion, for it was obliterated, foxes went through in it.

5:19  But you, O lord, [2into 3the 4eon 1shall dwell]; your throne is unto generation and generation.

5:20  Why for victory shall you forget us? Will you forsake us unto the duration of days?

5:21  Turn us to you! O lord, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before!

5:22  For in thrusting away, you thrusted us away; you were provoked to anger against us, unto exceedingly.