Lamentations 5

Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

Μνήσθητι Κύριε, ὅ, τι ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν· ἐπίβλεψον, καὶ ἴδε τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν ἡμῶν.

Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

Κληρονομία ἡμῶν μετεστράθη ἀλλοτρίοις, οἱ οἶκοι ἡμῶν ξένοις.

we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

Ὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν, οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατὴρ, μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι.

We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:

Ὕδωρ ἡμῶν ἐν ἀργυρίῳ ἐπίομεν, ξύλα ἡμῶν ἐν ἀλλάγματι ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἡμῶν·

we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

ἐδιώχθημεν, ἐκοπιάσαμεν, οὐκ ἀνεπαύθημεν.

Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their own satisfaction.

Αἴγυπτος ἔδωκε χεῖρα, Ἀσσοὺρ εἰς πλησμονὴν αὐτῶν.

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

Οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἥμαρτον, οὐχ ὑπάρχουσιν, ἡμεῖς τὰ ἀνομήματα αὐτῶν ὑπέσχομεν.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.

Δοῦλοι ἐκυρίευσαν ἡμῶν, λυτρούμενος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν.

We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν εἰσοίσομεν ἄρτον ἡμῶν, ἀπὸ προσώπου ῥομφαίας τῆς ἐρήμου.

Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

Τὸ δέρμα ἡμῶν ὡς κλίβανος ἐπελιώθη, συνεσπάσθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου καταιγίδων λιμοῦ.

They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Γυναῖκας ἐν Σιὼν ἐταπείνωσαν, παρθένους ἐν πόλεσιν Ἰούδα.

Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.

Ἄρχοντες ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν ἐκρεμάσθησαν, πρεσβύτεροι οὐκ ἐδοξάσθησαν.

The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

Ἐκλεκτοὶ κλαυθμὸν ἀνέλαβον, καὶ νεανίσκοι ἐν ξύλῳ ἠσθένησαν.

And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

Καὶ πρεσβύται ἀπὸ πύλης κατέπαυσαν, ἐκλεκτοὶ ἐκ ψαλμῶν αὐτῶν κατέπαυσαν.

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

Κατέλυσε χαρὰ καρδίας ἡμῶν, ἐστράφη εἰς πένθος ὁ χορὸς ἡμῶν·

The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

Ἔπεσεν ὁ στέφανος ἡμῶν τῆς κεφαλῆς· οὐαὶ δὲ ἡμῖν, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν.

For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

Περὶ τούτου ἐγενήθη ὀδύνη, ὀδυνηρὰ ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν, περὶ τούτου ἐσκότασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν.

Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

Ἐπʼ ὄρος Σιὼν, ὅτι ἠφανίσθη, ἀλώπεκες διῆλθον ἐν αὐτῇ.

But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.

Σὺ δὲ Κύριε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατοικήσεις, ὁ θρόνος σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν.

Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

Ἱνατί εἰς νῖκος ἐπιλήσῃ ἡμῶν, καταλείψεις ἡμᾶς εἰς μακρότητα ἡμερῶν;

Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

Ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς Κύριε πρὸς σὲ, καὶ ἐπιστραφησόμεθα· καὶ ἀνακαίνισον ἡμέρας ἡμῶν καθὼς ἔμπροσθεν.

For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.

Ὅτι ἀπωθούμενος ἀπώσω ἡμᾶς, ὠργίσθης ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς ἕως σθόδρα.