^{1 Ref} Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

^{2 Ref} Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

^{3 Ref} Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.

^{4 Ref} Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

^{5 Ref} For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

^{6 Ref} `To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

^{7 Ref} Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

^{8 Ref} Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

^{9 Ref} With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

^{10 Ref} Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

^{11 Ref} Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.

^{12 Ref} Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

^{13 Ref} Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

^{14 Ref} The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

^{15 Ref} Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

^{16 Ref} Fallen hath the crown `from' our head, Wo `is' now to us, for we have sinned.