¹ O Jehovah, remember what has been to us; look upon and see our shame.

² Our inheritance has been turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.

³ We are orphans. There is no father; our mothers are like widows.

⁴ We have drunk our water for silver; our wood comes for a price.

⁵ We are pursued; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.

⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, to the Assyrian, in order to be satisfied with bread.

⁷ Our fathers have sinned, and we are not; we have borne their iniquities.

⁸ Slaves rule over us; there is no rescuer from their hand.

⁹ We bring in our bread with our souls, from the face of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰ Our skin is burned black like an oven, because of the fever heat of famine.

¹¹ They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹² Rulers were hanged by their hands; the faces of the elders were not honored.

¹³ They lifted the young men to the hand mill, and the youths stumbled at the wood.

¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

¹⁵ The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned to mourning.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint; our eyes are dim for these things .

¹⁸ Zion is laid waste on the mountain; foxes walk about on it.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, You remain forever; Your throne to generation and generation.

²⁰ Why do You forget us forever, forsake us the length of days?

²¹ Return us to You, O Jehovah, and we shall return. Renew our days as of old,

²² unless You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry against us.