Verse 1
Lamentations 5:1
World English Bible, British Edition
1
Remember, LORD, what has come on us.
Look, and see our reproach.
Original Language Text
hebrew
זְכֹ֤ר יְהוָה֙ מֶֽה הָ֣יָה לָ֔/נוּ הביט הַבִּ֖יטָ/ה וּ/רְאֵ֥ה אֶת חֶרְפָּתֵֽ/נוּ
English Translation
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us; look and see our reproach.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 5 Context
1
Remember, LORD, what has come on us.
Look, and see our reproach.
2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to aliens.
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3
We are orphans and fatherless.
Our mothers are as widows.
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4
We must pay for water to drink.
Our wood is sold to us.
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5
Our pursuers are on our necks.
We are weary, and have no rest.
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6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
We have borne their iniquities.
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8
Servants rule over us.
There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
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9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
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10
Our skin is black like an oven,
because of the burning heat of famine.
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11
They ravished the women in Zion,
the virgins in the cities of Judah.
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12
Princes were hanged up by their hands.
The faces of elders were not honoured.
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13
The young men carry millstones.
The children stumbled under loads of wood.
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14
The elders have ceased from the gate,
and the young men from their music.
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15
The joy of our heart has ceased.
Our dance is turned into mourning.
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16
The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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17
For this our heart is faint.
For these things our eyes are dim:
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18
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.
The foxes walk on it.
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19
You, LORD, remain forever.
Your throne is from generation to generation.
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20
Why do you forget us forever,
and forsake us for so long a time?
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21
Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned.
Renew our days as of old.
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22
But you have utterly rejected us.
You are very angry against us.
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