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| 1Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace! | 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame! |
| 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners. |
| 3We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. | 3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows. |
| 4We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. | 4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. |
| 5Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest. | 5Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us. |
| 6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. | 6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food. |
| 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. | 7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin. |
| 8Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. | 8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control. |
| 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. | 9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert. |
| 10Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. | 10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. |
| 11Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. | 11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. |
| 12Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. | 12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected. |
| 13Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood. | 13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood. |
| 14The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music. | 14Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music. |
| 15The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. | 15The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges. |
| 16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! | 16The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned! |
| 17For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, | 17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim: |
| 18for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. | 18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it. |
| 19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations. | 19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation. |
| 20Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? | 20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long? |
| 21Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old— | 21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before, |
| 22unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us. | 22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit. |
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