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.
7. Our forefathers sinned and are dead,but we suffer their punishment.
8. Slaves rule over us;there is no one to rescue us from their power.