[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 no one 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.