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Lamentations 5 Young's Literal Translation

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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Textus Receptus
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 1898
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Lamentations is not in PT1904.

YLT Young's Literal Translation
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
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2 Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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3 Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
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4 Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
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5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured — there hath been no rest for us.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
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6 [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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7 Our fathers have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
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8 Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
8 Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
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9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
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10 Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
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11 Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins — in cities of Judah.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
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12 Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
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13 Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
13 The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
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14 The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
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15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
15 The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
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16 Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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17 For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
17 For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
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18 For the mount of Zion — that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
18 for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
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19 Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
19 You, Yahweh, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
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20 Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
20 Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
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21 Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
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22 For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us — exceedingly?
22 But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
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Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 44:13–16; Psalm 89:50–51; Lamentations 3:61; Psalm 79:12; Jeremiah 15:15
  2. 2 Isaiah 1:7; Zephaniah 1:13; Deuteronomy 28:30–68; Psalm 79:1–2; Isaiah 63:18
  3. 3 Jeremiah 18:21; Exodus 22:24; Jeremiah 15:8; Hosea 14:3
  4. 4 Isaiah 3:1; Deuteronomy 28:48; Ezekiel 4:9–17
  5. 5 Lamentations 1:14; Nehemiah 9:36–37; Jeremiah 28:14; Jeremiah 27:11–12; Deuteronomy 28:48
  6. 6 Hosea 12:1; Hosea 9:3; Jeremiah 2:18; Hosea 7:11; Genesis 24:2
  7. 7 Jeremiah 16:12; Jeremiah 31:29; Ezekiel 18:2; Jeremiah 14:20; Exodus 20:5
  8. 8 Nehemiah 5:15; Zechariah 11:6; Proverbs 30:22; Psalm 7:2; Hosea 2:10
  9. 9 Ezekiel 4:16–17; Ezekiel 12:18–19; Jeremiah 40:9–12; Jeremiah 41:18; Jeremiah 41:1–10
  10. 10 Lamentations 4:8; Job 30:30; Psalm 119:83; Lamentations 3:4
  11. 11 Isaiah 13:16; Zechariah 14:2; Deuteronomy 28:30
  12. 12 Lamentations 4:16; Isaiah 47:6; Jeremiah 52:10–11; Lamentations 2:20; Jeremiah 52:25–27
  13. 13 Judges 16:21; Matthew 23:4; Isaiah 47:2; Exodus 23:5; Nehemiah 5:1–5
  14. 14 Jeremiah 7:34; Isaiah 24:7–11; Revelation 18:22; Ezekiel 26:13; Lamentations 1:4
  15. 15 Amos 8:10; Jeremiah 25:10; Amos 6:4–7; Psalm 30:11; James 4:9–10
  16. 16 Psalm 89:39; Isaiah 3:9–11; Job 19:9; Jeremiah 13:18; Lamentations 1:1
  17. 17 Psalm 6:7; Isaiah 1:5; Lamentations 2:11; Job 17:7; Isaiah 38:14
  18. 18 Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 9:11; Lamentations 2:8–9; Isaiah 32:13–14; Psalm 74:2–3
  19. 19 Psalm 102:12; Hebrews 1:8–12; Psalm 45:6; Psalm 145:13; Psalm 102:25–27
  20. 20 Psalm 44:24; Psalm 13:1; Jeremiah 14:19–21; Isaiah 64:9–12; Psalm 74:1
  21. 21 Psalm 80:3; Psalm 80:7; Psalm 85:4; Jeremiah 31:18; Psalm 80:19
  22. 22 Psalm 60:1–2; Hosea 1:6; Ezekiel 37:11; Psalm 44:9; Isaiah 64:9

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences