Lamentations 5 Comparison: King James Version vs Young's Literal 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 hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

²Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

³Orphans we have beenwithout a father, our mothers are as widows.

⁴Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

⁵For our neck we have been pursued, We have labouredthere hath been no rest for us.

⁶To Egypt we have given a hand, To Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers have sinnedthey are not, We their iniquities have borne.

⁸Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

⁹With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

¹¹Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virginsin cities of Judah.

¹²Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

¹³Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

¹⁴The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

¹⁵Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

¹⁶Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.

¹⁷For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

¹⁸For the mount of Zionthat is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.

¹⁹Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.

²⁰Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

²¹Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

²²For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against usexceedingly?