en_wbms - Lam 5 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Lord, have thou mind what befell to us; see thou, and behold our shame.

² Our heritage is turned to aliens, our houses be turned to strangers.

³ We be made fatherless children without a father; our mothers be as widows.

⁴ We drank our water for money, we bought our wood for silver.

⁵ We were driven by our heads, and rest was not given to faint men.

⁶ We gave hand to Egypt, and to Assyrians, that we should be [ful] filled with bread.

⁷ Our fathers sinned, and be not, and we bare the wickednesses of them

⁸ Servants were lords of us, and none was, that again-bought from the hand of them.

⁹ In our lives we brought bread to us, from the face of [the] sword in desert.

¹⁰ Our skin is burnt as a furnace, of the face of tempests of hunger.

¹¹ They made low women in Zion, and virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹² Princes were hanged [up] by the hand; they were not ashamed of the faces of eld [or old] men.

¹³ They misused young waxing men unchastely, and children fell down in tree.

¹⁴ Eld [or Old] men failed from [the] gates; young men failed from the quire or choir of singers.

¹⁵ The joy of our heart failed; our song is turned into mourning.

¹⁶ The crown of our head fell down; woe to us! for we sinned.

¹⁷ Therefore our heart is made sorrowful, therefore our eyes be made dark.

¹⁸ For the hill of Zion, for it perished; foxes went in it.

¹⁹ But thou, Lord, shalt dwell without end; thy seat shall dwell in generation and into generation.

²⁰ Why shalt thou forget us without end, shalt thou forsake us into [the] length of days?

²¹ Lord, convert thou us to thee, and we shall be converted; make thou new our days, as at the beginning.

²² But thou casting away hast cast away us; thou art wroth against us greatly.