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Lamentations 5:1

New English Translation

O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.

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They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!”

Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: ‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

See my pain and rescue me! For I do not forget your law.

Remember how the enemy hurls insults, O Lord, and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don’t be silent!

I said, “Lord, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.

‘We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord’s temple.’

All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. They exchanged their valuables for just enough food to stay alive. “Look, O Lord! Consider that I have become worthless!” ל (Lamed)

Look, O Lord! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present. ש (Sin/Shin)

Her menstrual flow has soiled her clothing; she did not consider the consequences of her sin. Her demise was astonishing, and there was no one to comfort her. She cried, “Look, O Lord, on my affliction because my enemy boasts!” י (Yod)

All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem. “Ha! Is this the city they called ‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” פ (Pe)

Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary? ש (Sin/Shin)

Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.

until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.

You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.

Lord, I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, Lord, by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.”




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