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¹ Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.² Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.³ Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.⁴ Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.⁵ For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.⁶ [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.⁷ Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.⁸ Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.⁹ With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.¹⁰ Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.¹¹ Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.¹² Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.¹³ Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.¹⁴ The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.¹⁵ Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.¹⁶ Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned.

¹⁷ For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.¹⁸ For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.¹⁹ Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.²⁰ Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!²¹ Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.²² For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?