Lamentations 5:4-22

4 aquam nostram pecunia bibimus ligna nostra pretio conparavimus

5 cervicibus minabamur lassis non dabatur requies

6 Aegypto dedimus manum et Assyriis ut saturaremur pane

7 patres nostri peccaverunt et non sunt et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus

8 servi dominati sunt nostri non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum

9 in animabus nostris adferebamus panem nobis a facie gladii in deserto

10 pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est a facie tempestatum famis

11 mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt virgines in civitatibus Iuda

12 principes manu suspensi sunt facies senum non erubuerunt

13 adulescentibus inpudice abusi sunt et pueri in ligno corruerunt

14 senes de portis defecerunt iuvenes de choro psallentium

15 defecit gaudium cordis nostri versus est in luctu chorus noster

16 cecidit corona capitis nostri vae nobis quia peccavimus

17 propterea maestum factum est cor nostrum ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri

18 propter montem Sion quia disperiit vulpes ambulaverunt in eo

19 tu autem Domine in aeternum permanebis solium tuum in generatione et generatione

20 quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri derelinques nos in longitudinem dierum

21 converte nos Domine ad te et convertemur innova dies nostros sicut a principio

22 sed proiciens reppulisti nos iratus es contra nos vehementer

Lamentations 5:4-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 5

In this chapter are reckoned up the various calamities and distresses of the Jews in Babylon, which the Lord is desired to remember and consider, La 5:1-16; their great concern for the desolation of the temple in particular is expressed, La 5:17,18; and the chapter is concluded with a prayer that God would show favour to them, and turn them to him, and renew their prosperity as of old, though he had rejected them, and been wroth with them, La 5:19-22.