| 1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. | 1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace! |
| 2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. | 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens. |
| 3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows. | 3 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. |
| 4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood. | 4 We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought. |
| 5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us. | 5 With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest. |
| 6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. | 6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. |
| 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. | 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. |
| 8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand. | 8 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. |
| 9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. | 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. |
| 10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine. | 10 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. |
| 11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. | 11 Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. |
| 12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient. | 12 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. |
| 13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood. | 13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood. |
| 14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. | 14 The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music. |
| 15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning. | 15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. |
| 16 The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned. | 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! |
| 17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim, | 17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, |
| 18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it. | 18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. |
| 19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation. | 19 But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations. |
| 20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? | 20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us? |
| 21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning. | 21 Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old! |
| 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us. | 22 Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us? |