| NET Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. | 1Yahweh, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace! |
| 2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. |
| 3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. | 3We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows. |
| 4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. | 4We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. |
| 5We are pursued--they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest. | 5We are closely pursued; we are tired, and no one offers us rest. |
| 6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. | 6We made a treaty with Egypt and with Assyria, to get enough food. |
| 7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment. | 7Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment. |
| 8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power. | 8Slaves rule over us; no one rescues us from their hands. |
| 9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside. | 9We secure our food at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. |
| 10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger. | 10Our skin is as hot as an oven from the ravages of hunger. |
| 11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. | 11Women are raped in Zion, girls in the cities of Judah. |
| 12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. | 12Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect. |
| 13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor. | 13Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood. |
| 14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. | 14The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music. |
| 15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning. | 15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. |
| 16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! | 16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned. |
| 17Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears. | 17Because of this, our heart is sick; because of these, our eyes grow dim: |
| 18For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate. | 18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it. |
| 19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. | 19You, LORD, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation. |
| 20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long? | 20Why have You forgotten us forever, abandoned us for our entire lives? |
| 21Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before, | 21 LORD, restore us to Yourself, so we may return; renew our days as in former times, |
| 22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. | 22unless You have completely rejected us and are intensely angry with us. |
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