| Holman Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
| 1Yahweh, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace! | 1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
| 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. | 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
| 3We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows. | 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
| 4We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. | 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. |
| 5We are closely pursued; we are tired, and no one offers us rest. | 5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. |
| 6We made a treaty with Egypt and with Assyria, to get enough food. | 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 7Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment. | 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. |
| 8Slaves rule over us; no one rescues us from their hands. | 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. |
| 9We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. | 9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 10Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger. | 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
| 11Women are raped in Zion, girls in the cities of Judah. | 11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. |
| 12Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect. | 12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. |
| 13Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood. | 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. |
| 14The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music. | 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. |
| 15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. | 15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned. | 16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! |
| 17Because of this, our heart is sick; because of these, our eyes grow dim: | 17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. |
| 18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it. | 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
| 19You, LORD, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation. | 19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
| 20Why have You forgotten us forever, abandoned us for our entire lives? | 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? |
| 21 LORD, restore us to Yourself, so we may return; renew our days as in former times, | 21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. |
| 22unless You have completely rejected us and are intensely angry with us. | 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |
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