1Keep in mind, O Jehovah, what has come to us. Take note and see our shame. 2Our heritage is turned over to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen. 3We are children without fathers. Our mothers are like widows. 4We give money for a drink of water. We get our wood for a price. 5Our attackers are on our necks. We are overcome with weariness and we have no rest. 6We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread. 7Our fathers were sinners and are dead. The weight of their evil deeds is on us. 8Servants rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands. 9We risk our lives to get food, because of the sword of the wasteland. 10Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from the need of food. 11They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah. 12They put princes to death by hanging. The elders are not honored. 13The young men crushed the grain, and the boys fell under the wood. 14The old men are no longer seated in the doorway. The music of the young men has come to an end. 15The joy of our hearts has ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow. 16The crown has been taken from our head. Sorrow is ours, for we are sinners. 17Because of this our hearts are feeble. For these things our eyes are dark. 18The mountain of Zion is a waste. So jackals go there. 19You, O Jehovah, are seated as King forever. The seat of your power is eternal. 20Why have we gone from your memory forever? Why have you turned away from us for so long? 21Make us come back to you, O Jehovah, and let us be restored. Make our days new again as in the past. 22But you have rejected us. You are full of wrath against us!