| 1 | Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace. |
| 2 | Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders. |
| 3 | We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows. |
| 4 | We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price. |
| 5 | We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us. |
| 6 | We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread. |
| 7 | Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities. |
| 8 | Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand. |
| 9 | We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness. |
| 10 | Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine. |
| 11 | They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah. |
| 12 | The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders. |
| 13 | They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood. |
| 14 | The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms. |
| 15 | The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning. |
| 16 | The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned. |
| 17 | Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened: |
| 18 | because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it. |
| 19 | But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation. |
| 20 | Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time? |
| 21 | Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning. |
| 22 | But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us. |
