1. O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us;consider and look at our disgrace.
2. Our inheritance is turned over to strangers;foreigners now occupy our homes.
3. We have become fatherless orphans;our mothers have become widows.
4. We must pay money for our own water;we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
5. We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks;we are weary and have no rest.
6. We have submitted to Egypt and Assyriain order to buy food to eat.
7. Our forefathers sinned and are dead,but we suffer their punishment.
8. Slaves rule over us;there is no one to rescue us from their power.
9. At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.
10. Our skin is hot as an ovendue to a fever from hunger.
11. They raped women in Zion,virgins in the towns of Judah.
12. Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
13. The young men perform menial labor;boys stagger from their labor.
14. The elders are gone from the city gate;the young men have stopped playing their music.