A Prayer for Restoration 1 DRA Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. BSB BSB: Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 DRA Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. BSB BSB: Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 DRA We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows. BSB BSB: We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 DRA We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood. BSB BSB: We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 DRA We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us. BSB BSB: We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6 DRA We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. BSB BSB: We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 DRA Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. BSB BSB: Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 DRA Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand. BSB BSB: Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 DRA We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. BSB BSB: We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 DRA Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine. BSB BSB: Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 DRA They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. BSB BSB: Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 DRA The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient. BSB BSB: Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 DRA They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood. BSB BSB: Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 DRA The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. BSB BSB: The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 DRA The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning. BSB BSB: Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 DRA The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned. BSB BSB: The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 DRA Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim, BSB BSB: Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18 DRA For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it. BSB BSB: because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19 DRA But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation. BSB BSB: You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20 DRA Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? BSB BSB: Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21 DRA Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning. BSB BSB: Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22 DRA But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us. BSB BSB: unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.