| 1 اذكر يا رب ماذا صار لنا. اشرف وانظر الى عارنا. | 1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace! |
| 2 قد صار ميراثنا للغرباء. بيوتنا للاجانب. | 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens. |
| 3 صرنا ايتاما بلا اب. امهاتنا كارامل. | 3 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. |
| 4 شربنا ماءنا بالفضة. حطبنا بالثمن يأتي. | 4 We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought. |
| 5 على اعناقنا نضطهد. نتعب ولا راحة لنا. | 5 With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest. |
| 6 اعطينا اليد للمصريين والاشوريين لنشبع خبزا. | 6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. |
| 7 آباؤنا اخطأوا وليسوا بموجودين ونحن نحمل آثامهم. | 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. |
| 8 عبيد حكموا علينا. ليس من يخلص من ايديهم. | 8 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. |
| 9 بانفسنا نأتي بخبزنا من جرى سيف البرية. | 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. |
| 10 جلودنا اسودّت كتنور من جرى نيران الجوع. | 10 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. |
| 11 اذلوا النساء في صهيون العذارى في مدن يهوذا. | 11 Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. |
| 12 الرؤساء بايديهم يعلقون ولم تعتبر وجوه الشيوخ. | 12 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. |
| 13 اخذوا الشبان للطحن والصبيان عثروا تحت الحطب. | 13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood. |
| 14 كفت الشيوخ عن الباب والشبان عن غنائهم. | 14 The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music. |
| 15 مضى فرح قلبنا صار رقصنا نوحا. | 15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. |
| 16 سقط اكليل راسنا. ويل لنا لاننا قد اخطأنا. | 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! |
| 17 من اجل هذا حزن قلبنا. من اجل هذه اظلمت عيوننا. | 17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, |
| 18 من اجل جبل صهون الخرب. الثعالب ماشية فيه. | 18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. |
| 19 انت يا رب الى الابد تجلس. كرسيك الى دور فدور. | 19 But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations. |
| 20 لماذا تنسانا الى الابد وتتركنا طول الايام. | 20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us? |
| 21 ارددنا يا رب اليك فنرتد. جدد ايامنا كالقديم. | 21 Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old! |
| 22 هل كل الرفض رفضتنا هل غضبت علينا جدا | 22 Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us? |
