Lamentations 5

5:1

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

Spomeni se, Jahve, što nas je snašlo, pogledaj, vidi sramotu našu!

5:2

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

Baština naša pade u ruke strancima, domovi naši pripadoše tuđincima.

5:3

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

Siročad smo: oca nemamo, majke su nam kao udovice.

5:4

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

Vodu što pijemo plaćamo novcem, i za drvo valja nam platiti.

5:5

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

Jaram nam je o vratu, gone nas, iscrpljeni smo, ne daju nam predahnuti.

5:6

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

Pružamo ruke k Egiptu i Asiriji da se kruha nasitimo.

5:7

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

Oci naši zgriješiše i više ih nema, a mi nosimo krivice njihove.

5:8

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

Robovi nama zapovijedaju, a nitko da nas izbavi iz ruku njihovih.

5:9

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

Kruh svoj donosimo izlažući život maču u pustinji.

5:10

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

Koža nam gori kao peć užarena, ognjicom od plamena gladi.

5:11

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

Oskvrnuli su žene na Sionu i djevice u gradovima judejskim.

5:12

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

Svojim su rukama vješali knezove, ni lica staračka nisu poštivali.

5:13

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

Mladići su nosili žrvnjeve, djeca padala pod bremenom drva.

5:14

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

Starci su ostavili vrata, mladići više ne sviraju na lirama.

5:15

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

Radosti nesta iz naših srdaca, naš ples se pretvori u tugovanje.

5:16

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

Pao je vijenac s naše glave, jao nama što zgriješismo!

5:17

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

Evo zašto nam srce boluje, evo zašto nam oči se zastiru:

5:18

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

zato što Gora sionska opustje i po njoj se šuljaju šakali.

5:19

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

Ali ti, Jahve, ostaješ zauvijek, tvoj je prijesto od koljena do koljena.

5:20

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

Zašto da nas zaboraviš zauvijek, da nas ostaviš za mnoge dane?

5:21

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

Vrati nas k sebi, Jahve, obratit ćemo se, obnovi dane naše kao što nekoć bijahu.

5:22

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

Il' nas hoćeš sasvim zabaciti i na nas se beskrajno srditi?