1 Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us; look down and behold our reproach.2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers; our houses to foreigners.3 We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as widows.4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood comes at a price.5 We are pursued on our necks; we labor and have no rest.6 We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.7 Our fathers have sinned and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.8 Servants rule over us; there is no one to deliver out of their hand.9 We bring in our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.10 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.11 They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.12 Rulers were hung up by the hand; the presence of elders was not honored.13 They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled under loads of wood.14 The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, the young men from their music.15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe unto us, for we have sinned.17 Our heart is faint because of this; our eyes are dim because of these things.18 The mountain of Zion is laid waste; the foxes walk upon it.19 You, O Jehovah, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.20 Why do You forget us forever and forsake us for such a long time?21 Turn us back to You, O Jehovah, and we will repent; renew our days as of old,22 unless You have utterly rejected us. You have been very angry against us.

1 Lord, haue thou mynde what bifelle to vs; se thou, and biholde oure schenschipe.2 Oure eritage is turned to aliens, oure housis ben turned to straungers.3 We ben maad fadirles children with out fadir; oure modris ben as widewis.4 We drunken oure watir for monei, we bouyten oure trees for siluer.5 We weren dryuun bi oure heedis, and reste was not youun to feynt men.6 We yauen hond to Egipt, and to Assiriens, that we schulden be fillid with breed.7 Oure fadris synneden, and ben not, and we baren the wickidnessis of hem.8 Seruauntis weren lordis of vs, and noon was, that ayenbouyte fro the hond of hem.9 In oure lyues we brouyten breed to vs, fro the face of swerd in desert.10 Oure skynne is brent as a furneis, of the face of tempestis of hungur.11 Thei maden low wymmen in Sion, and virgyns in the citees of Juda.12 Princes weren hangid bi the hond; thei weren not aschamed of the faces of elde men.13 Thei mysusiden yonge wexynge men vnchastli, and children fellen doun in tree.14 Elde men failiden fro yatis; yonge men failiden of the queer of singeris.15 The ioie of oure herte failide; oure song is turned in to mourenyng.16 The coroun of oure heed fellen doun; wo to vs! for we synneden.17 Therfor oure herte is maad soreuful, therfor oure iyen ben maad derk.18 For the hil of Sion, for it perischide; foxis yeden in it.19 But thou, Lord, schal dwelle with outen ende; thi seete schal dwelle in generacioun and in to generacioun.20 Whi schalt thou foryete vs with outen ende, schalt thou forsake vs in to lengthe of daies?21 Lord, conuerte thou vs to thee, and we schal be conuertid; make thou newe oure daies, as at the bigynnyng.22 But thou castynge awei hast cast awei vs; thou art wrooth ayens vs greetli.