| King James Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. | 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame! |
| 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners. |
| 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. | 3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows. |
| 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. | 4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. |
| 5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. | 5Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us. |
| 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. | 6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food. |
| 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. | 7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin. |
| 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. | 8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control. |
| 9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. | 9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert. |
| 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. | 10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. |
| 11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. | 11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. |
| 12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. | 12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected. |
| 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. | 13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood. |
| 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. | 14Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music. |
| 15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. | 15The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges. |
| 16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! | 16The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned! |
| 17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. | 17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim: |
| 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. | 18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it. |
| 19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. | 19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation. |
| 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? | 20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long? |
| 21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. | 21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before, |
| 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. | 22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit. |
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