1Remember, Lord, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.

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

2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

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

3We are orphans and fatherless. 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 have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.

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

5Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.

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

6We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.

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

7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; we have borne their iniquities.

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

8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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

9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because 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 is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

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

11They raped the women in Zion, 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

12Princes were hanged by their hands; elders were shown no respect.

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

13The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.

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

14The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.

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

15The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.

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

16The crown is 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

17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.

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

18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.

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

19You, Lord, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.

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

20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

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

21Restore us to you, Lord, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,

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

22unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.

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