OET-RV GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
OET-RV LAM 5 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
5 Yahweh, take notice of what’s happened to us.
2 The land that was our inheritance has been turned over to strangers—
≈ our houses to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans, without a father,
≈ and our mothers are like widows.
≈ We bring in our firewood for a price.
5 We’re driven hard with the yoke on our necks.
We work hard, yet never get any rest.
6 We’ve made a treaty with Mitsrayim (Egypt),
≈ and with Ashur (Assyria) to get food.
7 Our ancestors sinned but they’re gone now.
→ We ourselves bear the results of their disobedience.
8 Babylonian slaves rule over us.
There’s no one to rescue us from their control.
9 We bring in our food at the cost of our lives,
due to the sword blades out there in the wilderness.
10 Our skin grows as hot as an oven
from the burning heat of hunger.
11 Women are raped in Tsiyon (Zion)—
≈ young women in Yehudah’s (Judah’s) cities.
12 Princes were hung by their hands.
≈ The city elders were treated with no respect.
13 Young men lift the grind stone
≈ and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders no longer make decisions at the city gate,
≈ The young men have stopped their music.
15 We’re no longer happy and contented.
≈ Our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 The crown has fallen off our head.
We won’t end well, because we’ve sinned.
17 As a result of that, we’ve become depressed.
On account of those things, our eyes grow dim.
18 On account of Mt. Tsiyon (Zion),
which is desolate with jackals roaming over it.
19 You, Yahweh, exist forever.
≈ You’ll sit on your throne throughout the generations.
20 Why do you forget us for so long?
≈ Why do you abandon us for many days?
21 Bring us back to yourself, Yahweh, and we’ll be restored.
≈ Renew our life back to what it was before
