| 1 | Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. |
| 2 | Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. |
| 3 | Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows. |
| 4 | Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. |
| 5 | For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us. |
| 6 | [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 7 | Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne. |
| 8 | Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand. |
| 9 | With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 10 | Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. |
| 11 | Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah. |
| 12 | Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. |
| 13 | Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled. |
| 14 | The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. |
| 15 | Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. |
| 16 | Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned. |
| 17 | For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim. |
| 18 | For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it. |
| 19 | Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation. |
| 20 | Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days! |
| 21 | Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old. |
| 22 | For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly? |
