| 1 Recuerda, Señor, lo que nos ha sucedido, | contempla y mira nuestra vergüenza. | 1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace. |
| 2 Nuestra heredad ha pasado a extraños, | nuestras casas a extranjeros. | 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders. |
| 3 Hemos quedado huérfanos, sin padre, | nuestras madres, como viudas. | 3 We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows. |
| 4 Bebemos nuestra agua a cambio de plata, | compramos nuestra leña pagando su precio. | 4 We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price. |
| 5 Nos persiguen, están encima de nosotros, | estamos cansados, no encontramos reposo. | 5 We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us. |
| 6 Hemos tendido la mano a Egipto, | a Asiria para saciarnos de pan. | 6 We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread. |
| 7 Nuestros padres pecaron y ya han muerto, | y nosotros cargamos con sus culpas. | 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities. |
| 8 Estamos dominados por unos esclavos, | y nadie nos libera de su mano. | 8 Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand. |
| 9 Arriesgamos la vida por nuestro pan, | desafiando la espada en el desierto. | 9 We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness. |
| 10 Nuestra piel abrasa como un horno, | por los ardores del hambre. | 10 Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine. |
| 11 Violaron a las mujeres en Sión, | a las doncellas en las ciudades de Judá. | 11 They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah. |
| 12 Colgaron a los príncipes de las manos, | los ancianos no han sido respetados. | 12 The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders. |
| 13 Los jóvenes tuvieron que mover el molino, | y los niños desfallecían bajo los haces de leña. | 13 They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood. |
| 14 Los ancianos ya no acuden a la puerta, | los jóvenes han olvidado sus cantares. | 14 The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms. |
| 15 Ha cesado la alegría de nuestro corazón, | nuestra danza se ha convertido en lamento. | 15 The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning. |
| 16 Ha caído la corona de nuestra cabeza, | ¡ay de nosotros, que hemos pecado! | 16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned. |
| 17 Por eso está abatido nuestro corazón, | por todo esto se nos nublan los ojos. | 17 Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened: |
| 18 Porque el monte Sión está desolado, | los zorros se pasean por él. | 18 because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it. |
| 19 Pero tú, Señor, permaneces por siempre, | tu trono de generación en generación. | 19 But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation. |
| 20 ¿Te olvidarás de nosotros para siempre, | nos abandonarás perpetuamente? | 20 Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time? |
| 21 Haznos volver a ti, Señor, y volveremos, | renueva nuestros días como antaño. | 21 Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning. |
| 22 Aunque nos hayas despreciado inmensamente | y tu enojo contra nosotros haya sido muy grande. | 22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us. |
