Lm 5 (King James)

   ¹ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. ² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to 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 necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. ⁸ Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. ⁹ We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. ¹⁰ Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. ¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. ¹² Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. ¹³ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. ¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 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, that we have sinned!
   ¹⁷ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. ¹⁸ Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. ¹⁹ Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne 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 LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. ²² But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Lm 5 (Vulgate)

   ¹ [Recordare, Domine, quid acciderit nobis ;
intuere et respice opprobrium nostrum.
   ² Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos,
domus nostræ ad extraneos.
   ³ Pupilli facti sumus absque patre,
matres nostræ quasi viduæ.
   ⁴ Aquam nostram pecunia bibimus ;
ligna nostra pretio comparavimus.
   ⁵ Cervicibus nostris minabamur,
lassis non dabatur requies.
   ⁶ Ægypto dedimus manum et Assyriis,
ut saturaremur pane.
   ⁷ Patres nostri peccaverunt, et non sunt :
et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus.
   ⁸ Servi dominati sunt nostri :
non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.
   ⁹ In animabus nostris afferebamus panem nobis,
a facie gladii in deserto.
   ¹⁰ Pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est,
a facie tempestatum famis.
   ¹¹ Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt,
et virgines in civitatibus Juda.
   ¹² Principes manu suspensi sunt ;
facies senum non erubuerunt.
   ¹³ Adolescentibus impudice abusi sunt,
et pueri in ligno corruerunt.
   ¹⁴ Senes defecerunt de portis,
juvenes de choro psallentium.
   ¹⁵ Defecit gaudium cordis nostri ;
versus est in luctum chorus noster.
   ¹⁶ Cecidit corona capitis nostri :
væ nobis, quia peccavimus !
   ¹⁷ Propterea mœstum factum est cor nostrum ;
ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri,
   ¹⁸ propter montem Sion quia disperiit ;
vulpes ambulaverunt in eo.
   ¹⁹ Tu autem, Domine, in æternum permanebis,
solium tuum in generationem et generationem.
   ²⁰ Quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri,
derelinques nos in longitudine dierum ?
   ²¹ Converte nos, Domine, ad te, et convertemur ;
innova dies nostros, sicut a principio.
   ²² Sed projiciens repulisti nos :
iratus es contra nos vehementer.]