Lamentações 5

He Īnoi mō te Mahi Aroha

1 Kia mahara, e Ihowā, ki te mea kua pā nei ki a mātou;

tirohia mai, kia kite ai koe i tō mātou ingoa kino.

2 Kua riro tō mātou wāhi tupu i ngā tāngata kē,

ō mātou whare i ngā tautāngata.

3 He pani mātou, kāhore he matua,

ko ō mātou whaea ānō he pouaru.

4 Nā te moni i inu wai ai mātou;

ko ā mātou wahie he mea hoko.

5 Kei runga kei ō mātou kakī ō mātou kaiwhai;

e māuiui ana mātou, kāhore he tānga manawa mō mātou.

6 Kua hoatu e mātou te ringa ki ngā Īhipiana, ki ngā Ahiriana,

kia mākona ai mātou i te taro.

7 I hara ō mātou mātua, ā, kua kore;

ā, kua whakawahā e mātou ō rātou hē.

8 Ko ngā pononga ō mātou rangatira;

kāhore he kaiwhakaora mō mātou i ō rātou ringa.

9 E tata mate mātou ka whiwhi ai i te taro,

i te hoari hoki o te koraha.

10 Mangu ana ō mātou kiri ānō he oumu,

i te wera ngau kino o te hemokai.

11 Taea ana e rātou ngā wāhine o Hiona,

ngā wāhina i ngā pā o Hūrā.

12 Ko ngā rangatira, tāronatia ake e tō rātou ringa;

kīhai ngā kanohi o ngā kaumātua i whakahōnoretia.

13 Ko ngā taitama kei te waha i te huri,

hinga ana ngā tamariki i te pīkaunga wahie.

14 Ko ngā kaumātua i ngā kūwaha kua kore,

me te waiata hoki a ngā taitama.

15 Kua mutu te koa o ō mātou ngākau,

kua puta kē tā mātou kanikani hei uhunga.

16 Kua taka te karauna o tō mātou māhunga;

auē te mate mō mātou kua hara hoki mātou.

17 Nā reira, whakaruhi noa iho ō mātou ngākau;

nā ēnei mea pōuriuri ana ō mātou kanohi.

18 Nā te maunga hoki o Hiona kua ururuatia nei,

e hāereerea nei e ngā pokiha.

19 Pūmau tonu koe, ake ake, e Ihowā;

ko tōu torōna kei tērā whakatupuranga, kei tērā whakatupuranga.

20 He aha koe i wareware tonu ai ki a mātou?

He aha koe i whakarere ai i a mātou, ā roa noa iho ngā rā?

21 Whakatahuritia atu mātou ki a koe, e Ihowā, ā, ka tahuri mātou;

whakahoutia ō mātou rā, kia rite ki ō mua.

22 Otiia, kua tino whakakāhore rawa koe ki a mātou,

e tino nui ana tōu riri ki a mātou.

1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:

Behold, and see our reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,

Our houses unto aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless;

Our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money;

Our wood is sold unto us.

5 Our pursuers are upon our necks:

We are weary, and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians,

And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers sinned, and are not;

And we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants rule over us:

There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,

Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin is black like an oven,

Because of the burning heat of famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion,

The virgins in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes were hanged up by their hand:

The faces of elders were not honored.

13 The young men bare the mill;

And the children stumbled under the wood.

14 The elders have ceased from the gate,

The young men from their music.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased;

Our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head:

Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

17 For this our heart is faint;

For these things our eyes are dim;

18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:

The foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever;

Thy throne is from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,

And forsake us so long time?

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned;

Renew our days as of old.

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us;

Thou art very wroth against us.