| New International Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace. | 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced! |
| 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. |
| 3We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows. | 3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed. |
| 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price. | 4We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive. |
| 5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest. | 5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest. |
| 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. | 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive. |
| 7Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment. | 7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved! |
| 8Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands. | 8Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us. |
| 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert. | 9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside. |
| 10Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger. | 10The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven. |
| 11Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah. | 11Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah. |
| 12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect. | 12Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt. |
| 13Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood. | 13Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. |
| 14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. | 14The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing. |
| 15Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has 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 garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned. |
| 17Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim | 17Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears. |
| 18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it. | 18For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals. |
| 19You, LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. | 19But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation. |
| 20Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long? | 20Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long? |
| 21Restore us to yourself, LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old | 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 beyond measure. | 22Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still? |
| New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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