Rotherham - Lamentations - 5

5:1  Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:

5:2  Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.

5:3  Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.

5:4  Our water—for silver, have we drunk, our wood—for a price, cometh in.

5:5  Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.

5:6  To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

5:7  Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.

5:8  Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.

5:9  At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.

5:10  Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.

5:11  Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!

5:12  Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.

5:13  Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.

5:14  Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.

5:15  Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.

5:16  Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

5:17  For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:

5:18  Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.

5:19  Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:

5:20  Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?

5:21  Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;

5:22  For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us—exceedingly!