- 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, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
- 20. Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
- 21. Turn you us to you, 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.
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