Lamentationes, 5
1. Recordare, Domine, quid acci derit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.
1. Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace!
2. Hereditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostrae ad extraneos.
2. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
3. Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostrae quasi viduae.
3. We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
4. Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus, ligna nostra pretio comparamus.
4. We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought.
5. Iugum in cervicibus nostris minamur; lassis non datur requies.
5. With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
6. Aegyptiis dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.
6. We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
7. Patres nostri peccaverunt et non sunt, et nos iniquitates eorum portamus. 8 Servi dominantur nostri; non est qui redimat de manu eorum.
7. Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
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8. Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
9. Vitae nostrae periculo afferimus panem nobis a facie gladii in deserto.
9. We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10. Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est propter aestum famis.
10. Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
11. Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt et virgines in civitatibus Iudae.
11. Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
12. Principes manu eorum suspensi sunt; facies senum honorem non habuerunt.
12. Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
13. Adulescentes molam portaverunt, et pueri sub lignis corruerunt.
13. Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14. Senes deficiunt de portis, iuvenes de choro psallentium.
14. The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.
15. Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster.
15. The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16. Cecidit corona capitis nostri; vae nobis, quia peccavimus!
16. The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
17. Propterea maestum factum est cor nostrum, ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,
17. For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18. propter montem Sion, quia desolatus est: vulpes ambulant in eo.
18. for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
19. Tu autem, Domine, in aeternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.
19. But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.
20. Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudinem dierum?
20. Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?
21. Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur; innova dies nostros sicut a principio.
21. Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
22. Ergone proiciens reppulisti nos, iratus es contra nos vehementer?
22. Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?
