Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
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.
Our inheritance is
turned to strangers, our houses to aliens
.
Our inheritance hath
been
turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners
.
We
are
orphans and
fatherless
, our mothers are as widows.
Orphans we
have
been
--
without
a
father
, our mothers `
are '
as widows.
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
.
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
.
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.
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
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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 .
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.
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.
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
.
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!
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.
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?
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