5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!

5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.

5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
5:3 We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.

5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5:4 We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price.

5:5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
5:5 They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.

5:6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
5:6 We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

5:7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
5:7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.

5:8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
5:8 Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.

5:9 We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.

5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah.

5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
5:12 Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
5:13 Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood.

5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
5:14 The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music.

5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
5:15 The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning.

5:16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
5:16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
5:17 Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim;

5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
5:18 Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.

5:19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
5:19 You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.

5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?
5:20 Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?

5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
5:21 Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old,

5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
5:22 Unless You have utterly rejected us, And are very angry with us!