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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation
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| 5:1 |
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. |
| 5:2 |
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. |
| 5:3 |
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows. |
| 5:4 |
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. |
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. |
| 5:5 |
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. |
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us. |
| 5:6 |
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
`To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 5:7 |
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. |
Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne. |
| 5:8 |
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. |
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand. |
| 5:9 |
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 5:10 |
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. |
| 5:11 |
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. |
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah. |
| 5:12 |
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. |
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. |
| 5:13 |
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. |
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled. |
| 5:14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. |
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. |
| 5:15 |
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. |
| 5:16 |
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! |
Fallen hath the crown `from' our head, Wo `is' now to us, for we have sinned. |
| 5:17 |
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. |
For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim. |
| 5:18 |
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it. |
| 5:19 |
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation. |
| 5:20 |
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? |
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days! |
| 5:21 |
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. |
Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old. |
| 5:22 |
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |
For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly? |
