5:1 Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis ; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.

5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

5:2 Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.

5:2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

5:3 Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.

5:3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

5:4 Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus ; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.

5:4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

5:5 Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.

5:5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.

5:6 Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.

5:6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.

5:7 Patres nostri peccaverunt, et non sunt : et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus.

5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

5:8 Servi dominati sunt nostri : non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.

5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

5:9 In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.

5:9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

5:10 Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.

5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

5:11 Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.

5:11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

5:12 Principes manu suspensi sunt ; facies senum non erubuerunt.

5:12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

5:13 Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.

5:13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

5:14 Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.

5:14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

5:15 Defecit gaudium cordis nostri ; versus est in luctum chorus noster.

5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.

5:16 Cecidit corona capitis nostri : væ nobis, quia peccavimus !

5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

5:17 Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum ; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,

5:17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

5:18 propter montem Sion quia disperiit ; vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.

5:18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

5:19 Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.

5:19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.

5:20 Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudine dierum ?

5:20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

5:21 Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur ; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.

5:21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.

5:22 Sed projiciens repulisti nos : iratus es contra nos vehementer.

5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.