20 Wherefore dost thou turned; renew our days as of forget us for ever, and forsake old. us so long time? 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. 11 The last Verse but one is repeated. לְדוֹר וָדוֹר : לָמָּה לָנֶצַח תִּשְׁכָּחֵנוּ תַּעַזְבֵנוּי ינשובה ק' לְאֹרֶךְ יָמִים : הֲשִׁיבֵנוּ יְהוָה' אֵלֶיךָ וְנָשׁוּב הַדָּש 21 יָמֵינוּ בְּקֶדֶם: כִּי אִם־מָאַס מְאַסְתָּנוּ קָצַפְתָּ 22 עָלֵינוּ עַד־מְאד : 22 השיבנו יי אליך ונשובה חדש ימינו כקדם * סימן יתקק חזק נשלם ספר איכה • ההלה לאל המעלה לעמו ארוכה : סכום פסוקי ספר איכה מאה וחמשים וארבעה וסימנו יסע קדים בשמיס: ופרקיו חמשה והרמן בן בג בג אומר אומר לפום צערא אגרא * וחציו לדכא תחת רגליו : Kiernan, Printer, 32, Bishopsgate Without. LORD, was taken in their 7 Our fathers have sinned, pits, of whom we said, Un- and are not; and we have der his shadow we shall live borne their iniquities. among the heathen. 8 Servants have ruled over 21 | Rejoice and be glad, us: there is none that doth O daughter of Edom, that deliver us out of their hand. dwellest in the land of Uz: 9 We gat our bread with the cup also shall pass through the peril of our lives, because unto thee; thou shalt be of the sword of the wilderness. drunken, and shalt make thy- 10 Our skin was black like self naked. an oven, because of the ter22 The punishment of thine rible famine. iniquity is accomplished, O 11 They ravished the wodaughter of Zion; he will no men in Zion, and the maids more carry thee away into in the cities of Judah. captivity: he will visit thine 12 Princes are hanged up iniquity, O daughter of Edom; by their hand: the faces of he will discover thy sins. elders were not honoured. CHAP. V. 13 They took the young REMEMBER O Lord, men to grind, and the child what is come upon us: ren fell under the wood. consider, and behold our re- 14 The elders have ceased proach. from the gate, the young men 2 Our inheritance is turned from their music. to strangers, our houses to 15 The joy of our heart is aliens. ceased; our dance is turned 3 We are orphans and into mourning. fatherless, our mothers are 16 The crown is fallen as widows. from our head: woe unto 4 We have drunken our us that we have sinned! water for money; our wood 17 For this our heart is is sold unto us. faint; for these things our 5 Our necks are under eyes are dim. persecution: we labour, and 18 Because of the mountain have no rest. of Zion, which is desolate; 6 We have given the hand the foxes walk upon it. to the Egyptains, and to the - 19 Thou, O Lord, remainAssyrians, to be satisfied with est for ever; thy throne from bread, generation to generation. |