1
cPs. 89:50 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and seedch. 3:61 our disgrace!
2 ePs. 79:1 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to foreigners.
3 We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
4 We must pay for the water we drink;
the wood we get must be bought.
5 f[Josh. 10:24] Our pursuers are at our necks;
we are weary; we are given no rest.
6 We have given the hand tog[Hos. 12:1] Egypt, and tog[Hos. 12:1] Assyria,
to get bread enough.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
hJer. 31:29; Ezek. 18:2 and we bear their iniquities.
8 i[Prov. 30:21, 22] Slaves rule over us;
there is none to deliver us from their hand.
9 j[Jer. 6:25] We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 kSee ch. 4:8 Our skin is hot as an oven
withl[Deut. 32:24] the burning heat of famine.
11 Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.
12 mSee 2 Kgs. 25:19-21 Princes are hung up by their hands;
nch. 4:16 no respect is shown to the elders.
13 Young men are compelled too[Judg. 16:21] grind at the mill,
and boys staggerp[Josh. 9:27] under loads of wood.
14 n[See ver. 12 above] The old men have left the city gate,
the young menq[Isa. 24:8] their music.
15 q[See ver. 14 above] The joy of our hearts has ceased;
r[Amos 8:10] our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 sPs. 89:39; Jer. 13:18; [ch. 1:1] The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 For thistIsa. 1:5 our heart has become sick,
for these thingsuSee ch. 2:11 our eyes have grown dim,
18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
v[Isa. 34:13] jackals prowl over it.
19 wPs. 9:7; 102:12; 145:13 But you, O Lord, reign forever;
your throne endures to all generations.
20 xPs. 13:1 Why do you forget us forever,
why do you forsake us for so many days?
21 yJer. 31:18; [Ps. 80:3, 7, 19] Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored!
Renew our days as of old—
22 zJer. 14:19 unless you have utterly rejected us,
and you remain exceedingly angry with us.