The Lamentations of Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 880
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
5-22
5~—6
LAM ENTATIONS OF ]EREMIAH.
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STANZA 2.
We gave our hand to the Mitzraim,
We satisfied Ashur with bread ;
Our fathers have sinned, and are not ;
Yet we, ourselves, carry their sins!
They were slaves who now over us rule,
There is none to release from their hands I
SrANzA 3,,
We bring in our bread by our lives,
In the face of the sword, from the plain,
Our skin is as hot as a kiln,
For the fever of famine consumes!
They have ravished the women in Zion,
And in ]udah’s Cities the maids!
The Princes are hung by their hands;
To the Elders they pay no respect l
The young men do work at the Mill,
And the children are loaded with wood !
SrANzA 4.
The Elders have ceased from the gate,
And the youthful abandon their songs!
Our heartehas left off from its glee,
Into mourning our dance has been turned
The wreath has fallen off from our head ;
Alas for us‘!—-—because we had sinned.
Through thatour heart has turned fain
For that has our sight become blind.
Desolation now sits on Zion’s hill;
And jackals are prowling around !
The Envoy.
§ §ragzr fur itlarhuu.
O LORD! You endure for ever
Your Throne is for age after age ;
Then will You forget us for ever 2
Or abandon for long lapse of time?
O turn us back, LGRD, and we shall be turned,
And renew our days as of old ;
For if You should wholly reject,
Your anger would rise to excess!
Tun END or rm; Lnmnnrarions or jr·;nEM1AH.
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