Lamentations 55LamentationsThe siege remembered and a final prayerSeptuagint

SeptuagintBerean Standard Bible

1. 1LXXΜΝΗΣΘΗΤΙ, Κύριε, ὅ,τι ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν· ἐπίβλεψον καὶ ἰδὲ τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν ἡμῶν.BSBBSB: Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2. 2LXXκληρονομία ἡμῶν μετεστράφη ἀλλοτρίοις, οἱ οἶκοι ἡμῶν ξένοις.BSBBSB: Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3. 3LXXὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν, οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατήρ· μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι.BSBBSB: We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4. 4LXXὕδωρ ἡμῶν ἐν ἀργυρίῳ ἐπίομεν, ξύλα ἡμῶν ἐν ἀλλάγματι ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἡμῶν.BSBBSB: We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5. 5LXXἐδιώχθημεν, ἐκοπιάσαμεν, οὐκ ἀνεπαύθημεν.BSBBSB: We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6. 6LXXΑἴγυπτος ἔδωκε χεῖρα, Ἀσσοὺρ εἰς πλησμονὴν αὐτῶν.BSBBSB: We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7. 7LXXοἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἥμαρτον, οὐχ ὑπάραχουσιν· ἡμεῖς τὰ ἀνομήματα αὐτῶν ὑπέσχομεν.BSBBSB: Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8. 8LXXδοῦλοι ἐκυρίευσαν ἡμῶν, λυτρούμενος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν.BSBBSB: Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9. 9LXXἐν ταῖας ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν, εἰσοίσομεν ἄρτον ἡμῶν, ἀπὸ προσώπου ρομφαίας τῆς ἐρήμου.BSBBSB: We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10. 10LXXτὸ δέρμα ἡμῶν ὡς κλίβανος ἐπελιώθη, συνεσπάσθησαν ἀπὸ προσώπου καταιγίδων λιμοῦ.BSBBSB: Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11. 11LXXγυναῖκας ἐν Σιὼν ἐταπείνωσαν, παρθένους ἐν πόλεσιν Ἰούδα.BSBBSB: Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12. 12LXXἄρχοντες ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν, ἐκρεμάσθησαν, πρεσβύτεροι οὐκ ἐδοξάσθησαν.BSBBSB: Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13. 13LXXἐκλεκτοὶ κλαυθμὸν ἀνέλαβον, καὶ νεανίσκοι ἐν ξύλῳ ἠσθένησαν.BSBBSB: Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14. 14LXXκαὶ πρεσβύται ἀπὸ πύλης κατέπαυσαν, ἐκλεκτοὶ ἐκ ψαλμῶν αὐτῶν κατέπαυσαν.BSBBSB: The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15. 15LXXκατέλυσε χαρὰ καρδίας ἡμῶν, ἐστράφη εἰς πένθος ὁ χορὸς ἡμῶν,BSBBSB: Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16. 16LXXἔπεσεν ὁ στέφανος ἡμῶν τῆς κεφαλῆς· οὐαὶ δὴ ἡμῖν, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν.BSBBSB: The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17. 17LXXπερὶ τούτου ἐγενήθη ὀδυνηρὰ ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν, περὶ τούτου ἐσκότασαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν.BSBBSB: Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18. 18LXXἐπ' ὄρος Σιών, ὅτι ἠφανίσθη, ἀλώπεκες διῆλθον ἐν αὐτῇ.BSBBSB: because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19. 19LXXσὺ δέ, Κύριε, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατοικήσεις, ὁ θρόνος σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν.BSBBSB: You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20. 20LXXἱνατί εἰς νῖκος ἐπιλήσῃ ἡμῶν, καταλείψεις ἡμᾶς εἰς μακρότητα ἡμερῶν;BSBBSB: Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21. 21LXXἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, Κύριε, πρός σε, καὶ ἐπιστραφησόμεθα· καὶ ἀνακαίνισον ἡμέρας ἡμῶν καθὼς ἔμπροσθεν.BSBBSB: Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22. 22LXXὅτι ἀπωθούμενος ἀπώσω ἡμᾶς, ὠργίσθης ἐφ' ἡμᾶς ἕως σφόδρα.BSBBSB: unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.