Lamentations 5
1 to remember LORD what? to be to/for us (to look [emph?] *QK) and to see: see [obj] reproach our
Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
2 inheritance our to overturn to/for be a stranger house: home our to/for foreign
Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
3 orphan to be (and nothing *QK) father mother our like/as widow
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
4 water our in/on/with silver: price to drink tree: wood our in/on/with price to come (in): bring
We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:
5 upon neck our to pursue be weary/toil (and not *QK) to rest to/for us
we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
6 Egypt to give: give hand: power Assyria to/for to satisfy food: bread
Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.
7 father our to sin (and nothing they and we *QK) iniquity: crime their to bear
Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.
8 servant/slave to rule in/on/with us to tear nothing from hand: power their
Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.
9 in/on/with soul: life our to come (in): bring food: bread our from face: because sword [the] wilderness
We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 skin our like/as oven to grow warm from face: because scorching famine
Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
11 woman in/on/with Zion to afflict virgin in/on/with city Judah
They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 ruler in/on/with hand their to hang face: kindness old: elder not to honor
Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
13 youth grinding to lift: raise and youth in/on/with tree: wood to stumble
The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
14 old from gate to cease youth from music their
And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
15 to cease rejoicing heart our to overturn to/for mourning dance our
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 to fall: fall crown head our woe! please to/for us for to sin
The crown has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.
17 upon this to be sick heart our upon these to darken eye our
For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
18 upon mountain: mount Zion which/that be desolate: destroyed fox to go: walk in/on/with him
Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
19 you(m. s.) LORD to/for forever: enduring to dwell throne your to/for generation and generation
But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.
20 to/for what? to/for perpetuity to forget us to leave: forsake us to/for length day
Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
21 to return: rescue us LORD to(wards) you (and to return: rescue *QK) to renew day our like/as front: old
Turn us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
22 that if: except if: except to reject to reject us be angry upon us till much
For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.
