English Bible Languages

Indian Language Bible Word Collections

1	O LORD, [earnestly] remember what has come upon us! Look down and see our reproach (our national disgrace)!

2	Our inheritance has fallen over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

3	We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

4	We have had to pay money to drink the water that belongs to us; our [own] wood is sold to us.

5	Our pursuers are upon our necks [like a yoke]; we are weary and are allowed no rest.

6	We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians [merely] to get food to satisfy [our hunger].

7	Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities. [Isa. 65:7; Jer. 16:11-12; 31:29; Ezek. 18:2-4.]

8	Servants and slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands. [Neh. 5:15.]

9	We get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness [the wild Arabs, who may attack if we venture into the fields to reap our harvests].

10	Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

11	They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

12	They hung princes by their hands; the persons of elders were not respected.

13	Young men carried millstones, and boys fell [staggering] under [burdens of] wood.

14	The elders have ceased from [congregating at] the city's gate, the young men from their music.

15	Ceased is the joy of our hearts; our dancing has turned into mourning.

16	The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is brought to the dust]! Woe to us, for we have sinned!

17	Because of this our hearts are faint and sick; because of these things our eyes are dim and see darkly.

18	As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, the jackals prowl over it!

19	But You, O Lord, remain and reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to [all] generations.

20	Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

21	Turn us to Yourself, O Lord, and we shall be turned and restored! Renew our days as of old!--

22	Or have You utterly rejected us? Or are You exceedingly angry with us [still]?