1. Remember, Lord, what has happened to us,pay attention, and see our disgrace:
2. Our heritage is turned over to strangers,our homes, to foreigners.
3. We have become orphans, without fathers;our mothers are like widows.
4. We pay money to drink our own water,our own wood comes at a price.
5. With a yoke on our necks, we are driven;we are worn out, but allowed no rest.
6. We extended a hand to Egypt and Assyria,to satisfy our need of bread.
7. Our ancestors, who sinned, are no more;but now we bear their guilt.
8. Servants rule over us,with no one to tear us from their hands.
9. We risk our lives just to get bread,exposed to the desert heat;
10. Our skin heats up like an oven,from the searing blasts of famine.