Verse 5
Lamentations 5:5
Bible in Basic English
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Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
Original Language Text
hebrew
עַ֤ל צַוָּארֵ֨/נוּ֙ נִרְדָּ֔פְנוּ יָגַ֖עְנוּ לא וְ/לֹ֥א הֽוּנַ֖ח לָֽ/נוּ
English Translation
Upon our necks we have been pursued; we have labored but not found rest for us.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 5 Context
1
Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
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2
Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
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3
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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4
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
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5
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
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We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
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7
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
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8
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
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9
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
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10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
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11
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
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12
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
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13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
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14
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
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15
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
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16
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
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17
Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
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18
Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
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19
You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
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20
Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
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21
Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
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22
But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
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