Verse 5
Lamentations 5:5
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
5
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
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
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
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2
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
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3
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
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4
We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
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5
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6
We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
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7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
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8
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
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9
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
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10
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
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11
They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
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12
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
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13
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
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14
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
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15
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
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16
The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
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17
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
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18
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
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19
But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
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20
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
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21
Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
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22
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
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