| New International Version | International Standard Version |
| 1Remember, LORD, what has happened to 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 fatherless, our mothers are widows. | 3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows. |
| 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price. | 4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. |
| 5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest. | 5Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us. |
| 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. | 6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food. |
| 7Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment. | 7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin. |
| 8Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands. | 8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control. |
| 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert. | 9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert. |
| 10Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger. | 10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. |
| 11Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah. | 11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. |
| 12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect. | 12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected. |
| 13Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood. | 13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood. |
| 14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. | 14Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music. |
| 15Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has 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! |
| 17Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim | 17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim: |
| 18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it. | 18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it. |
| 19You, LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. | 19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation. |
| 20Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long? | 20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long? |
| 21Restore us to yourself, LORD, that we may return; 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 are angry with us beyond measure. | 22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit. |
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