1 R emember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

2 O ur inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

3 O rphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers as widows.

4 O ur water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

5 F or our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

6 E gypt we have given a hand, Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

7 O ur fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

8 S ervants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

9 W ith our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 O ur skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

11 W ives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.

12 P rinces by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

13 Y oung men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

14 T he aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

15 C eased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

16 F allen hath the crown our head, Wo now to us, for we have sinned.

17 F or this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

18 F or the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.

19 T hou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.

20 W hy for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

21 T urn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

22 F or hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?