Verse 1
Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Verse 2
Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Verse 3
We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Verse 4
We have drunk our own water for money; our wood is sold to us.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Verse 5
Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Verse 6
We have given our hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Verse 7
Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Verse 8
Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Verse 9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Verse 10
Our skin is black as an oven because of the terrible famine.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Verse 11
They ravished the women in Zion, the young women in the cities of Judah.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Verse 12
Princes were hung up by their hands; the faces of elders were not honored.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Verse 13
They took the young men to grind, and the children stumbled under the loads of wood.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Verse 14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Verse 15
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Verse 16
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Verse 17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Verse 18
Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Verse 19
You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Verse 20
Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long?
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Verse 21
Turn us back to You, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Verse 22
But You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry with us.
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.