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