Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
1Kae, Ao AWURADE, deɛ aba yɛn so: hwɛ, na hunu yɛn animtiabuo.Under pastoral review
2Yɛn agyapadeɛ adane ahɔhoɔ dea, yɛn afie adane ananafoɔ dea.Under pastoral review
3Yɛyɛ agyanka ne awisiaa, yɛn maamenom te sɛ mpremfoɔ mmaa.Under pastoral review
4Yɛde sika atɔ yɛn nsuo anom; wɔtɔn yɛn nnua ma yɛn.Under pastoral review
5Yɛn kɔn mu na wɔtaa yɛn: yɛyɛ adwuma, na yɛnnya ahomegyeɛ.Under pastoral review
6Yɛde yɛn nsa ama Misraimfoɔ, ne Asiriafoɔ, sɛ yɛbɛnya burodo amee.Under pastoral review
7Yɛn agyanom yɛɛ bɔne, na wɔnni hɔ; na yɛn na yɛasoa wɔn amumuyɛ.Under pastoral review
8Nkoa adi yɛn so: obiara nni hɔ a ɔgye yɛn firi wɔn nsam.Under pastoral review
9Yɛde yɛn nkwa asiane na ɛnyaa yɛn burodo, ɛserɛ so akofena enti.Under pastoral review
10Yɛn wedeɛ yɛɛ tuntum sɛ fononoo, ɔkɔm a ano yɛ den enti.Under pastoral review
11Wɔto mmaa monnaa wɔ Sion, ne mmabaawa wɔ Yuda nkuro mu.Under pastoral review
12Wɔde wɔn nsa asɛn mmapɔmma: wɔammu mpanyimfoɔ anim.Under pastoral review
13Wɔfaa mmeranteɛ sɛ wɔnyam, na mmɔfra hwehwee ase nnua ase.Under pastoral review
14Mpanyimfoɔ agyae ɛpono ano, mmeranteɛ nso agyae wɔn nnwom.Under pastoral review
15Yɛn akoma mu anigyeɛ agyae; yɛn asa adane awerɛhoɔ.Under pastoral review
16Ahenkyɛ afiri yɛn tiri so ahwe ase: yɛn nnue, sɛ yɛayɛ bɔne!Under pastoral review
17Yei enti yɛn akoma abrɛ; yeinom enti yɛn ani so ayɛ kusuu.Under pastoral review
18Sion bepɔ a ada mpan no enti, sakraman nante so.Under pastoral review
19Wo, Ao AWURADE, wote hɔ daa; w'ahennwa firi awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ kɔsi awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ.Under pastoral review
20Adɛn enti na wo werɛ firi yɛn daa, na wogya yɛn nna tenten mu?Under pastoral review
21Dane yɛn kɔ wo nkyɛn, Ao AWURADE, na yɛbɛdane; yɛ yɛn nna foforɔ sɛ tete no.Under pastoral review
22Nanso woapo yɛn koraa; wo bo afu yɛn yie.Under pastoral review