Lamentations 5 — parallel

5:1

Souviens-toi, Éternel, de ce qui nous est arrivé!

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

5:2

Notre héritage a passé à des étrangers,

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

5:3

Nous sommes orphelins, sans père;

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

5:4

Nous buvons notre eau à prix d’argent,

We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

5:5

Nous sommes poursuivis, le joug sur le cou;

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

5:6

Nous avons tendu la main vers l’Égypte, vers l’Assyrie,

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

5:7

Nos pères ont péché, ils ne sont plus,

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

5:8

Des esclaves dominent sur nous,

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

5:9

Nous cherchons notre pain au péril de notre vie,

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

5:10

Notre peau est brûlante comme un four,

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

5:11

Ils ont déshonoré les femmes dans Sion,

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

5:12

Des chefs ont été pendus par leurs mains;

Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

5:13

Les jeunes hommes ont porté la meule,

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

5:14

Les vieillards ne vont plus à la porte,

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

5:15

La joie a disparu de nos cœurs,

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

5:16

La couronne de notre tête est tombée!

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

5:17

Si notre cœur est souffrant,

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

5:18

C’est que la montagne de Sion est ravagée,

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

5:19

Toi, l’Éternel, tu règnes à jamais;

You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

5:20

Pourquoi nous oublierais-tu pour toujours,

Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

5:21

Fais-nous revenir vers toi, ô Éternel, et nous reviendrons!

Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

5:22

Nous aurais-tu entièrement rejetés,

unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.