¹Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace! ²Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners. ³We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows. ⁴⌞We pay for water with money⌟, our wood comes to us at a price. ⁵We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us. ⁶We have made a deal with Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with food. ⁷Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity. ⁸Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand. ⁹⌞We risk our life for food⌟ because of the sword of the desert. ¹⁰Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine. ¹¹They raped women in Zion, young women in the cities of Judah. ¹²They hang princes by their hand; they do not show respect before elders. ¹³Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood. ¹⁴Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments. ¹⁵The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony. ¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! ¹⁷Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim. ¹⁸Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, ⌞foxes tread on it⌟. ¹⁹You, O Yahweh, will sit forever on your throne for generation to generation. ²⁰Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us ⌞for so long⌟? ²¹Restore us to you, O Yahweh, that we will be restored; renew our days as of old. ²²Unless you have utterly rejected us, unless you are angry with us beyond measure.