Lamentations 5 — TOJB

5Verse 1Remember, Hashem, what is come upon us;
consider, and behold our reproach.
^{Verse 2}Our nachalah is turned over to zarim,
our batim (houses) to foreigners.
^{Verse 3}We are yetomim and fatherless,
immoteinu are like almanot.
^{Verse 4}We must pay kesef for our own mayim;
our wood is sold unto us.
^{Verse 5}Our necks are under persecution;
we are weary, and have no rest.
^{Verse 6}We have submitted to the Mitzrayim,
and to the Assyrians, to get enough lechem.
^{Verse 7}Avoteinu have sinned, and are no more;
and we have borne their iniquities.
^{Verse 8}Avadim have ruled over us;
there is none that doth deliver us out of their yad.
^{Verse 9}We get our lechem with the peril of our lives
because of the cherev of the midbar.
^{Verse 10}Our skin was hot like an oven
because we burn with ra'av (hunger, famine).
^{Verse 11}They ravished the nashim in Tziyon,
and the betulot in the towns of Yehudah.
^{Verse 12}Sarim (princes) are hanged by their yad;
the faces of Zekenim were not respected.
^{Verse 13}They took the bochurim to grind,
and the ne'arim staggered under the wood.
^{Verse 14}The zekenim have ceased from the sha'ar,
the bochurim from their music.
^{Verse 15}The joy of our heart is gone;
mekholeinu (our dance) is turned into mourning.
^{Verse 16}The ateret is fallen from our head;
woe unto us, for we have sinned!
^{Verse 17}For this our lev is faint;
because of these things our eyes are dim.
^{Verse 18}Because of the Har Tziyon, which is desolate,
the jackals prowl upon it.
^{Verse 19}Thou, Hashem, remainest forever;
Thy throne from generation to generation.
^{Verse 20}Why dost Thou forget us forever,
and forsake us for so long?
^{Verse 21}Restore us, Hashem, to Thyself
that we may return;
renew yamenu (our days) as of old.
^{Verse 22}Unless Thou hast utterly rejected us
and Thou art angry with us beyond measure.