| International Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame! | 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced! |
| 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners. | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. |
| 3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows. | 3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed. |
| 4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. | 4We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive. |
| 5Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us. | 5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest. |
| 6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food. | 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive. |
| 7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin. | 7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved! |
| 8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control. | 8Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us. |
| 9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert. | 9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside. |
| 10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. | 10The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven. |
| 11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. | 11Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah. |
| 12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected. | 12Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt. |
| 13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood. | 13Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. |
| 14Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music. | 14The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing. |
| 15The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges. | 15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. |
| 16The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned! | 16The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned. |
| 17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim: | 17Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears. |
| 18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it. | 18For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals. |
| 19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation. | 19But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation. |
| 20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long? | 20Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long? |
| 21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before, | 21Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had! |
| 22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit. | 22Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still? |
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