1Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.

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Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 89:50

2Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.

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Zephaniah 1:13, Isaiah 1:7, Zephaniah 1:13, Isaiah 1:7, Psalms 79:1

3We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.

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Jeremiah 18:21, Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 15:8

4We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.

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Isaiah 3:1, Isaiah 3:1, Ezekiel 4:9, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 4:9

5We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.

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Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37, Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37, Lamentations 1:14

6We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.

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Hosea 12:1, Hosea 9:3, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 9:3, Jeremiah 2:36

7Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.

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Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 16:12, Jeremiah 14:20

8Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.

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Zechariah 11:6, Nehemiah 5:15, Zechariah 11:6, Nehemiah 5:15, Psalms 7:2

9We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.

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Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 12:18, Ezekiel 12:19, Jeremiah 40:9

10Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.

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Lamentations 4:8, Lamentations 4:8, Job 30:30, Job 30:30, Psalms 119:83

11They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.

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Zechariah 14:2, Isaiah 13:16, Zechariah 14:2, Isaiah 13:16, Deuteronomy 28:30

12The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.

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Lamentations 4:16, Lamentations 4:16, Isaiah 47:6, Isaiah 47:6, Lamentations 2:10

13They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.

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Judges 16:21, Judges 16:21, Exodus 11:5, Isaiah 58:6, Exodus 23:5

14The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.

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Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 7:34, Isaiah 24:7, Isaiah 24:11, Ezekiel 26:13

15The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.

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Jeremiah 25:10, Amos 8:10, Jeremiah 25:10, Amos 8:10, James 4:9

16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.

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Psalms 89:39, Psalms 89:39, Isaiah 3:9, Isaiah 3:11, Job 19:9

17Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:

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Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:5, Psalms 6:7, Lamentations 2:11, Job 17:7

18because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.

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Micah 3:12, Micah 3:12, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 9:11, 1 Kings 9:7

19But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.

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Psalms 102:12, Psalms 102:12, Psalms 45:6, Hebrews 1:8, Hebrews 1:12

20Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?

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Psalms 44:24, Psalms 13:1, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 13:1, Jeremiah 14:19

21Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.

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Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:3, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 80:7, Psalms 85:4

22But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.

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Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:2, Psalms 60:1, Psalms 60:2, Ezekiel 37:11