LEB(i)
1 Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows.
4 ⌊We pay for water with money⌋,* our wood comes to us at a price.
5 We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.
6 We have made a deal with Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with food.
7 Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.
8 Slaves 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.
10 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine.
11 They raped women in Zion, young women* in the cities of Judah.
12 They hang princes by their hand; they do not show respect before elders.
13 Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood.
14 Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments.
15 The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony.
16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!