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¹ Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:² Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.³ Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.⁴ Our water - for silver, have we drunk, our wood - for a price, cometh in.⁵ Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.⁶ To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.⁷ Our fathers, sinned, and are not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.⁸ Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.⁹ At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.¹⁰ Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.¹¹ Women - in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!¹² Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.¹³ Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.¹⁴ Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.¹⁵ Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.¹⁶ Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

¹⁷ For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:¹⁸ Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.¹⁹ Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:²⁰ Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?²¹ Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;²² For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us - exceedingly!