Lamentations 5

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

recordare Domine quid acciderit nobis intuere et respice obprobrium nostrum

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

hereditas nostra versa est ad alienos domus nostrae ad extraneos

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

pupilli facti sumus absque patre matres nostrae quasi viduae

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

aquam nostram pecunia bibimus ligna nostra pretio conparavimus

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

cervicibus minabamur lassis non dabatur requies

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

Aegypto dedimus manum et Assyriis ut saturaremur pane

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

patres nostri peccaverunt et non sunt et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus

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

servi dominati sunt nostri non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum

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

in animabus nostris adferebamus panem nobis a facie gladii in deserto

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

pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est a facie tempestatum famis

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

mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt virgines in civitatibus Iuda

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

principes manu suspensi sunt facies senum non erubuerunt

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

adulescentibus inpudice abusi sunt et pueri in ligno corruerunt

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

senes de portis defecerunt iuvenes de choro psallentium

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

defecit gaudium cordis nostri versus est in luctu chorus noster

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

cecidit corona capitis nostri vae nobis quia peccavimus

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

propterea maestum factum est cor nostrum ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri

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

propter montem Sion quia disperiit vulpes ambulaverunt in eo

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

tu autem Domine in aeternum permanebis solium tuum in generatione et generatione

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

quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri derelinques nos in longitudinem dierum

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

converte nos Domine ad te et convertemur innova dies nostros sicut a principio

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

sed proiciens reppulisti nos iratus es contra nos vehementer