5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis; intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.

5:2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.

5:3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.

5:4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus; ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.

5:5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary, and no rest was given us.
Cervicibus nostris minabamur, lassis non dabatur requies.

5:6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis, ut saturaremur pane.

5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
Patres nostri peccaverunt, et non sunt: et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus.

5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
Servi dominati sunt nostri: non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.

5:9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis, a facie gladii in deserto.

5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est, a facie tempestatum famis.

5:11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.

5:12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.
Principes manu suspensi sunt; facies senum non erubuerunt.

5:13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt, et pueri in ligno corruerunt.

5:14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
Senes defecerunt de portis, juvenes de choro psallentium.

5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
Defecit gaudium cordis nostri; versus est in luctum chorus noster.

5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.
Cecidit corona capitis nostri: væ nobis, quia peccavimus !

5:17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.
Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum; ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,

5:18 For Mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
propter montem Sion quia disperiit; vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.

5:19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis, solium tuum in generationem et generationem.

5:20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri, derelinques nos in longitudine dierum?

5:21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur; innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.

5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.
Sed projiciens repulisti nos: iratus es contra nos vehementer.