Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our areproach!
2Our inheritance has been turned over to astrangers, Our bhouses to aliens.
3We have become orphans awithout a father, Our mothers are like widows.
41We have to pay for our drinking awater, Our wood comes to us at a price.
51Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is ano rest for us.
6We have 1submitted to aEgypt and Assyria 2to get enough bread.
7Our afathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.
8aSlaves rule over us; There is bno one to deliver us from their hand.
9We get our bread 1at the arisk of our lives 2Because of the sword in the wilderness.
10Our skin has become as ahot as an oven, Because of 1the burning heat of famine.
11They ravished the awomen in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12Princes were hung by their hands; 1 aElders were not respected.
13Young men 1 aworked at the grinding mill, And youths bstumbled under loads of wood.
14Elders 1are gone from the gate, Young men from their amusic.
15The joy of our hearts has aceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
16The acrown has fallen from our head; bWoe to us, for we have sinned!
17Because of this our aheart is faint, Because of these things our beyes are dim;
18Because of aMount Zion which lies desolate, bFoxes prowl in it.
19aYou, O LORD, 1rule forever; Your bthrone is from generation to generation.
20Why do You aforget us forever? Why do You forsake us 1so long?
21aRestore us to You, O LORD, that we may be restored; Renew bour days as of old,
22Unless aYou have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly bangry with us.