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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?
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