1. Remember, Hashem, what is come upon us; consider, and behold our reproach.
2. Our nachalah is turned over to zarim, our batim (houses) to foreigners.
3. We are yetomim and fatherless, immoteinu are like almanot.
4. We must pay kesef for our own mayim; our wood is sold unto us.
5. Our necks are under persecution; we are weary, and have no rest.
6. We have submitted to the Mitzrayim, and to the Assyrians, to get enough lechem.
7. Avoteinu have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.
8. Avadim have ruled over us; there is none that doth deliver us out of their yad.
9. We get our lechem with the peril of our lives because of the cherev of the midbar.
10. Our skin was hot like an oven because we burn with ra'av (hunger, famine).
11. They ravished the nashim in Tziyon, and the betulot in the towns of Yehudah.