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