1. O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us;consider and look at our disgrace.
2. Our inheritance is turned over to strangers;foreigners now occupy our homes.
3. We have become fatherless orphans;our mothers have become widows.
4. We must pay money for our own water;we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
5. We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks;we are weary and have no rest.
6. We have submitted to Egypt and Assyriain order to buy food to eat.