Lamentations 5

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.

μνήσθητι κύριε ὅ τι ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν ἐπίβλεψον καὶ ἰδὲ τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν ἡμῶν

Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.

κληρονομία ἡμῶν μετεστράφη ἀλλοτρίοις οἱ οἶκοι ἡμῶν ξένοις

We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.

ὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατήρ μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι

We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.

ἐξ ἡμερῶν ἡμῶν ξύλα ἡμῶν ἐν ἀλλάγματι ἦλθεν

We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.

Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.

ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἡμῶν ἐδιώχθημεν ἐκοπιάσαμεν οὐκ ἀνεπαύθημεν

We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.

Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.

Αἴγυπτος ἔδωκεν χεῖρα Ασσουρ εἰς πλησμονὴν αὐτῶν

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

Patres nostri peccaverunt, et non sunt : et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus.

οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἥμαρτον οὐχ ὑπάρχουσιν ἡμεῖς τὰ ἀνομήματα αὐτῶν ὑπέσχομεν

Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Servi dominati sunt nostri : non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.

δοῦλοι ἐκυρίευσαν ἡμῶν λυτρούμενος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν

We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.

ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν εἰσοίσομεν ἄρτον ἡμῶν ἀπὸ προσώπου ῥομφαίας τῆς ἐρήμου

Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.

τὸ δέρμα ἡμῶν ὡς κλίβανος ἐπελειώθη συνεσπάσθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου καταιγίδων λιμοῦ

They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.

γυναῖκας ἐν Σιων ἐταπείνωσαν παρθένους ἐν πόλεσιν Ιουδα

The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

Principes manu suspensi sunt; facies senum non erubuerunt.

ἄρχοντες ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν ἐκρεμάσθησαν πρεσβύτεροι οὐκ ἐδοξάσθησαν

They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.

ἐκλεκτοὶ κλαυθμὸν ἀνέλαβον καὶ νεανίσκοι ἐν ξύλῳ ἠσθένησαν

The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.

καὶ πρεσβῦται ἀπὸ πύλης κατέπαυσαν ἐκλεκτοὶ ἐκ ψαλμῶν αὐτῶν κατέπαυσαν

The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.

Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster.

κατέλυσεν χαρὰ καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐστράφη εἰς πένθος ὁ χορὸς ἡμῶν

The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

Cecidit corona capitis nostri : væ nobis, quia peccavimus!

ἔπεσεν ὁ στέφανος τῆς κεφαλῆς ἡμῶν οὐαὶ δὴ ἡμῖν ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν

Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,

περὶ τούτου ἐγενήθη ὀδυνηρὰ ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν περὶ τούτου ἐσκότασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν

For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

propter montem Sion quia disperiit; vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.

ἐπ' ὄρος Σιων ὅτι ἠφανίσθη ἀλώπεκες διῆλθον ἐν αὐτῇ

But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.

Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.

σὺ δέ κύριε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατοικήσεις ὁ θρόνος σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν

Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudine dierum?

ἵνα τί εἰς νεῖκος ἐπιλήσῃ ἡμῶν καταλείψεις ἡμᾶς εἰς μακρότητα ἡμερῶν

Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.

ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς κύριε πρὸς σέ καὶ ἐπιστραφησόμεθα καὶ ἀνακαίνισον ἡμέρας ἡμῶν καθὼς ἔμπροσθεν

But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.

Sed projiciens repulisti nos : iratus es contra nos vehementer.

ὅτι ἀπωθούμενος ἀπώσω ἡμᾶς ὠργίσθης ἐφ' ἡμᾶς ἕως σφόδρα