Lamentations 5 Comparison: King James Version vs Darby Translation

Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

⁴We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

⁵Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

⁸Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

¹³They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

¹⁷For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

¹⁹Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

²²But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Lamentations 5

¹Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

⁴Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

⁵Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

⁶We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

⁸Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

⁹We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

¹¹They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

¹³The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

¹⁸Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

¹⁹Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?

²¹Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

²²Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?