Lamentations 5 - Compare Translations
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Lamentations 5:1
KJVRemember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
WEBRemember, Yahweh, what has come on us.
YLTRemember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5:2
KJVOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
WEBOur inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
YLTOur inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Lamentations 5:3
KJVWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
WEBWe are orphans and fatherless.
YLTOrphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
Lamentations 5:4
KJVWe have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
WEBWe have drunken our water for money.
YLTOur water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
Lamentations 5:5
KJVOur necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
WEBOur pursuers are on our necks.
YLTFor our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
Lamentations 5:6
KJVWe have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
WEBWe have given our hands to the Egyptians,
YLT[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7
KJVOur fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
WEBOur fathers sinned, and are no more.
YLTOur fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
Lamentations 5:8
KJVServants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
WEBServants rule over us.
YLTServants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
Lamentations 5:9
KJVWe gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
WEBWe get our bread at the peril of our lives,
YLTWith our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:10
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Lamentations 5:11
KJVThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
WEBThey ravished the women in Zion,
YLTWives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
KJVPrinces are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
WEBPrinces were hanged up by their hands.
YLTPrinces by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
Lamentations 5:13
KJVThey took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
WEBThe young men carry millstones.
YLTYoung men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
Lamentations 5:14
KJVThe elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
WEBThe elders have ceased from the gate,
YLTThe aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
Lamentations 5:15
KJVThe joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
WEBThe joy of our heart has ceased.
YLTCeased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
Lamentations 5:16
KJVThe crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
WEBThe crown has fallen from our head.
YLTFallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
Lamentations 5:17
KJVFor this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
WEBFor this our heart is faint.
YLTFor this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
Lamentations 5:18
KJVBecause of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
WEBFor the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.
YLTFor the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
Lamentations 5:19
KJVThou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
WEBYou, Yahweh, remain forever.
YLTThou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
Lamentations 5:20
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Lamentations 5:21
KJVTurn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
WEBTurn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned.
YLTTurn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
Lamentations 5:22
KJVBut thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
WEBBut you have utterly rejected us.
YLTFor hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?
22 verses compared across 3 translations - KJV, WEB, YLT