1 GLT Remember, O Yahweh, what has happened to us; look and see our disgrace. BSB BSB: Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 GLT Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers; our houses to foreigners. BSB BSB: Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 GLT We have become orphans, there is no father, and our mothers are like widows. BSB BSB: We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 GLT We drink our water with silver; we bring in our wood with a price. BSB BSB: We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 GLT We are pressed on our necks. We toil; there is no rest for us. BSB BSB: We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6 GLT We have given a hand to Egypt, Assyria to satisfy bread. BSB BSB: We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 GLT Our fathers sinned; they are no more. We ourselves bear their iniquities. BSB BSB: Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 GLT Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver from their hand. BSB BSB: Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 GLT We bring in our bread by our lives, from the sword blade of the wilderness. BSB BSB: We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 GLT Our skin grows hot as an oven, from the burning of hunger. BSB BSB: Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 GLT Women are raped in Zion; virgins in the cities of Judah. BSB BSB: Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 GLT Princes are hung by their hands; they show no honor to the face of elders. BSB BSB: Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 GLT Young men lift the grind stone and boys stagger with wood. BSB BSB: Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 GLT The elders cease from the gate, the young men from their songs. BSB BSB: The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 GLT Our hearts cease from joy; our dancing has turned to mourning. BSB BSB: Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 GLT The crown of our head has fallen. Woe to us, for we have sinned! BSB BSB: The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 GLT On account of this, our hearts have become sick; on account of these things, our eyes grow dim. BSB BSB: Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18 GLT On account of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals tread over it. BSB BSB: because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19 GLT You, O Yahweh, are forever. You will sit upon your throne from generation to generation. BSB BSB: You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20 GLT Why do you forget us for so long? You forsake us for many days? BSB BSB: Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21 GLT Return us to yourself, O Yahweh, and we will be restored. Renew our days as long ago— BSB BSB: Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22 GLT unless you have utterly rejected us, are angry with us beyond measure. BSB BSB: unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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