O Yahweh, Remember Us!
Remember, O Yahweh, what has happened to us;
Look, and see our areproach!
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to astrangers,
Our bhouses to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans awithout a father;
Our mothers are like widows.
4 We drink our awater by means of silver;
Our wood comes to us at a price.
5 Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out; there is ano rest for us.
6 We have given over our hands to aEgypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 Our afathers sinned; they are no more;
It is we who have borne their iniquities.
8 aSlaves rule over us;
There is bno one to tear us away from their hand.
9 We get our bread at the arisk of our lives
Because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin has become as ahot as an oven
Because of the burning heat of famine.
11 They violated the awomen in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hung by their hands;
aElders were not respected.
13 Young men alifted up the stone at the grinding mill,
And youths bstumbled down under loads of wood.
14 Elders have ceased from being at the gate,
Young men from their amusic.
15 The joy of our hearts has aceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
16 The acrown has fallen from our head;
bWoe to us, for we have sinned!