1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! | TOSK |
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. | TOSK |
3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. | TOSK |
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. | TOSK |
5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest. | TOSK |
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. | TOSK |
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment. | IP¹ | IP² | TOSK |
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands. | TOSK |
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. | TOSK |
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. | TOSK |
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. | TOSK |
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect. | TOSK |
13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood. | TOSK |
14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. | TOSK |
15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. | TOSK |
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! | TOSK |
17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim— | TOSK |
18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes. | TOSK |
19 You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation. | TOSK |
20 Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long? | TOSK |
21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old, | TOSK |
22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure. | C | TOSK |