| 1 | Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see 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 to us. |
| 5 | Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. |
| 6 | We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 7 | Our fathers sinned, and are no more; 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; 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 to 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 on it. |
| 19 | You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. |
| 20 | Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time? |
| 21 | Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old. |
| 22 | But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us. |
