Lamentations 5

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

BOEIPA aw poek lamtah kaimih taengkah aka thoeng te paelki laeh‍. Paelki lamtah kaimih sokah kokhahnah he hmu lah‍.

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

Kaimih kah rho te hlanglak taengla, ka im te kholong taengla pawk coeng.

3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Cadah la ka om uh tih nuhmai bangla ka manu napa a om moenih.

4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

Kamamih tui ha tangka neh ka ok uh tih kamamih kah thing ha a phu daengah ha pawk.

5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.

Ka rhawn ah n'hloem uh vaengah ka kohnue uh pawt bangla kaimih he n'duem sak pawh.

6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.

Buh ka cung uh ham khaw Egypt neh Assyria taengah kut ka duen uh.

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

A pa rhoek khaw tholh uh tih kaimih taengah a om voel moenih. Tedae kaimih loh amih kah thaesainah te ka phueih uh.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Sal rhoek kaimih soah n'taemrhai uh tih amih kut lamkah aka bawt om pawh.

9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Khosoek cunghang hmai ah ka hinglu nen ni ka buh ka dang uh.

10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Khokha rhamling hmai ah ka vin khaw hmaiulh bangla tloo coeng.

11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Zion kah huta rhoek neh Judah khopuei kah oila rhoek khaw a tholh puei uh.

12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.

Amih kut neh mangpa rhoek a kuiok sak tih patong rhoek kah maelhmai khaw hiin uh pawh.

13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

Tongpang rhoek loh phaklung a phueih uh tih camoe rhoek te thingpum dongah paloe uh.

14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

Vongka lamkah patong rhoek neh, tongpang rhoek khaw a rhotoeng lamloh kangkuen uh.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.

Kaimih lungbuei kah omthennah he kangkuen coeng tih kaimih kah lamnah khaw nguekcoinah la poeh.

16 The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.

Kaimih lu kah rhuisam khaw yulh coeng. Anunae ka tholh uh khaw kaimih ham coeng ni‍.

17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,

Te dongah kaimih lungbuei he pumthim hainak la coeng‍. He dongah kaimih kah maelhmai khaw a hmuep‍.

18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

Zion tlang aka pong te a soah maetang ni a pongpa coeng.

19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.

BOEIPA namah tah kumhal duela na om tih, na ngolkhoel khaw cadilcahma phoeikah cadilcahma duela cak.

20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

Balae tih a yoeyah la kaimih nan hnilh? Kaimih nan hnoo khaw khohnin loh sen.

21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

BOEIPA aw kaimih he namah taengah m'mael sak laeh. Ka mael uh van daengah ni hlamat kah bangla kaimih kah khohnin thai neh ka mael uh eh.

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.

Kaimih taengah a nah la na thintoek tih kaimih he nan hnawt nan hnawt mai.