5:1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach!

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

5:3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
5:3 We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.

5:4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
5:4 We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes [to us] at a price.

5:5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
5:5 Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
5:6 We have submitted to Egypt [and] Assyria to get enough bread.

5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
5:7 Our fathers sinned, [and] are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.

5:8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
5:8 Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand.

5:9 We get our bread at 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 is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
5:10 Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
5:12 Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.

5:13 The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
5:13 Young men worked at the grinding mill; And youths stumbled under [loads] of wood.

5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
5:14 Elders are gone from the gate, 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 hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for 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 are dim;

5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
5:18 Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, Foxes prowl in it.

5:19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
5:19 Thou, O LORD, dost rule forever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, (And) forsake us so long time?
5:20 Why dost Thou forget us forever; Why dost Thou forsake us so long?

5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
5:21 Restore us to Thee, O LORD, that we may 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 Thou hast utterly rejected us, [And] art exceedingly angry with us.