| | 1 | Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace. | |
| | 2 | Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, our homes to foreigners. | |
| | 3 | We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers like widows. | |
| | 4 | We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price. | |
| | 5 | Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest. | |
| | 6 | We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. | |
| | 7 | Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment. | |
| | 8 | Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands. | |
| | 9 | We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert. | |
| | 10 | Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger. | |
| | 11 | Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah. | |
| | 12 | Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect. | |
| | 13 | Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood. | |
| | 14 | The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. | |
| | 15 | Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. | |
| | 16 | The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! | |
| | 17 | Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim | |
| | 18 | for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it. | |
| | 19 | You, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. | |
| | 20 | Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long? | |
| | 21 | Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old | |
| | 22 | unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. | |
