耶和华啊，求你记念我们所遭遇的事；注视观看我们所受的凌辱。
Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us; / Look and see our reproach.

我们的产业，转归异族人；我们的房屋，转归外地人。
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, / Our houses to foreigners.

我们成了无父的孤儿；我们的母亲，好像寡妇。
We are orphans without father; / Our mothers are like widows.

我们出钱才得水喝；我们的柴是出了代价买来的。
We have drunk our water for money; / Our wood comes to us at a price.

追赶我们的，到了我们的颈项上；我们疲乏，不得歇息。
On our necks are our pursuers; / We are weary; we have no rest.

我们投降埃及人和亚述人，为要得粮吃饱。
We have given our hand to Egypt / And to Assyria, so as to be satisfied with bread.

我们列祖犯罪，而今不在了，我们却担当他们的罪孽。
Our fathers sinned and they are not, / And we ourselves bear their iniquities.

奴仆辖制我们；无人救我们脱离他们的手。
Slaves rule over us; / There is no one to deliver us from their hand.

因为旷野的刀剑，我们冒性命的危险，才得粮食。
We get our bread at the risk of our lives / Because of the sword from the wilderness.

因饥饿的燥热，我们的皮肤黝黑如炉。
Our skin is black like an oven / Because of the burning heat of famine.

他们在锡安玷污妇人，在犹大的城邑玷污处女。
They have ravished the women in Zion, / The virgins in the cities of Judah.

首领被他们吊起，老人的面也不受尊敬。
Princes were hanged by them. / The faces of the elders were not honored.

少年人扛磨石，孩童背木柴而绊跌。
The young men bore the mill, / And the young boys stumbled under the wood.

老年人在城门口绝迹，少年人不再奏乐。
The old men have ceased from the gate, / The young men from their music.

我们心中的欢乐止息，跳舞转为悲哀。
The joy of our heart has ceased; / Our dance has been turned into mourning.

冠冕从我们的头上落下；我们有祸了，因我们犯了罪。
The crown has fallen from our head. / Woe to us! For we have sinned.

为这事我们的心发昏；为这些事我们的眼昏花。
Because of this our heart is faint; / Because of these things our eyes are dim;

因为锡安山荒凉，狐狸行在其上。
Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate — / Foxes rove in it.

耶和华啊，你存到永远，你的宝座，存到万代。
You, O Jehovah, abide forever; / Your throne is from generation to generation.

你为何永远忘记我们，为何长久离弃我们？
Why do You forget us forever / And forsake us for so long a time?

耶和华啊，求你使我们回转，我们便得回转；求你更新我们的日子，像古时一样。
Turn us back to You, O Jehovah, and we will be turned; / Renew our days as before.

或是你已经全然弃绝我们，向我们大发烈怒？
Or have You utterly rejected us? / Are You exceedingly angry with us?