Lam.5.1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lam.5.1
"Remember, GOD, all we've been through. Study our plight, the black mark we've made in history.
Lam.5.1
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
Lam.5.1
Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!
Lam.5.1
LORD, remember everything that has happened to us. See all the sorrows we bear!
Lam.5.2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lam.5.2
Our precious land has been given to outsiders, our homes to strangers.
Lam.5.2
Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, our homes to foreigners.
Lam.5.2
Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.
Lam.5.2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
Lam.5.3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lam.5.3
Orphans we are, not a father in sight, and our mothers no better than widows.
Lam.5.3
We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers like widows.
Lam.5.3
We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.
Lam.5.3
We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.
Lam.5.4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Lam.5.4
We have to pay to drink our own water. Even our firewood comes at a price.
Lam.5.4
We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
Lam.5.4
We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price.
Lam.5.4
We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.
Lam.5.5
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lam.5.5
We're nothing but slaves, bullied and bowed, worn out and without any rest.
Lam.5.5
Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
Lam.5.5
They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.
Lam.5.5
Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.
Lam.5.6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lam.5.6
We sold ourselves to Assyria and Egypt just to get something to eat.
Lam.5.6
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
Lam.5.6
We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lam.5.6
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive.
Lam.5.7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lam.5.7
Our parents sinned and are no more, and now we're paying for the wrongs they did.
Lam.5.7
Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
Lam.5.7
Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.
Lam.5.7
It was our ancestors who sinned, but they died before the hand of judgment fell. We have suffered the punishment they deserved!
Lam.5.8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Lam.5.8
Slaves rule over us; there's no escape from their grip.
Lam.5.8
Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.
Lam.5.8
Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.
Lam.5.8
Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.
Lam.5.9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lam.5.9
We risk our lives to gather food in the bandit-infested desert.
Lam.5.9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
Lam.5.9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lam.5.9
We must hunt for food in the wilderness at the risk of our lives.
Lam.5.10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Lam.5.10
Our skin has turned black as an oven, dried out like old leather from the famine.
Lam.5.10
Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
Lam.5.10
Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.
Lam.5.10
Because of the famine, our skin has been blackened as though baked in an oven.
Lam.5.11
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lam.5.11
Our wives were raped in the streets in Zion, and our virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lam.5.11
Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lam.5.11
They ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah.
Lam.5.11
Our enemies rape the women and young girls in Jerusalem and throughout the towns of Judah.
Lam.5.12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Lam.5.12
They hanged our princes by their hands, dishonored our elders.
Lam.5.12
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
Lam.5.12
Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.
Lam.5.12
Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and the old men are treated with contempt.
Lam.5.13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lam.5.13
Strapping young men were put to women's work, mere boys forced to do men's work.
Lam.5.13
Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Lam.5.13
Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood.
Lam.5.13
The young men are led away to work at millstones, and the children stagger under heavy loads of wood.
Lam.5.14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Lam.5.14
The city gate is empty of wise elders. Music from the young is heard no more.
Lam.5.14
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Lam.5.14
The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music.
Lam.5.14
The old men no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing.
Lam.5.15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Lam.5.15
All the joy is gone from our hearts. Our dances have turned into dirges.
Lam.5.15
Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Lam.5.15
The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning.
Lam.5.15
The joy of our hearts has ended; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Lam.5.16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Lam.5.16
The crown of glory has toppled from our head. Woe! Woe! Would that we'd never sinned!
Lam.5.16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Lam.5.16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Lam.5.16
The garlands have fallen from our heads. Disaster has fallen upon us because we have sinned.
Lam.5.17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Lam.5.17
Because of all this we're heartsick; we can't see through the tears.
Lam.5.17
Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
Lam.5.17
Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim;
Lam.5.17
Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears.
Lam.5.18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lam.5.18
On Mount Zion, wrecked and ruined, jackals pace and prowl.
Lam.5.18
for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
Lam.5.18
Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.
Lam.5.18
For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals.
Lam.5.19
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Lam.5.19
And yet, GOD, you're sovereign still, your throne intact and eternal.
Lam.5.19
You, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lam.5.19
You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.
Lam.5.19
But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation.
Lam.5.20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Lam.5.20
So why do you keep forgetting us? Why dump us and leave us like this?
Lam.5.20
Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Lam.5.20
Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?
Lam.5.20
Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you forsaken us for so long?
Lam.5.21
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lam.5.21
Bring us back to you, GOD-we're ready to come back. Give us a fresh start.
Lam.5.21
Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old
Lam.5.21
Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old,
Lam.5.21
Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had!
Lam.5.22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Lam.5.22
As it is, you've cruelly disowned us. You've been so very angry with us."
Lam.5.22
unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
Lam.5.22
Unless You have utterly rejected us, And are very angry with us!
Lam.5.22
Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still?
