1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see 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 Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

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

6 We have given the hand to Egypt, {and} to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, {and} they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

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

12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

13 The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

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

15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

19 Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?

21 Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

22 Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

1 Kia mahara, e Ihowa, ki te mea kua pa nei ki a matou: tirohia mai, kia kite ai koe i to matou ingoa kino.

2 Kua riro to matou wahi tupu i nga tangata ke, o matou whare i nga tautangata.

3 He pani matou, kahore he matua, ko o matou whaea ano he pouaru.

4 Na te moni i inu wai ai matou; ko a matou wahie he mea hoko.

5 Kei runga kei o matou kaki o matou kaiwhai: e mauiui ana matou, kahore he tanga manawa mo matou.

6 Kua hoatu e matou te ringa ki nga Ihipiana, ki nga Ahiriana, kia makona ai matou i te taro.

7 I hara o matou matua, a kua kore; a kua whakawaha e matou o ratou he.

8 Ko nga pononga o matou rangatira: kahore he kaiwhakaora mo matou i o ratou ringa.

9 E tata mate matou ka whiwhi ai i te taro, i te hoari hoki o te koraha.

10 Mangu ana o matou kiri ano he oumu, i te wera ngau kino o te hemokai.

11 Taea ana e ratou nga wahine o Hiona, nga wahine i nga pa o Hura.

12 Ko nga rangatira, taronatia ake e to ratou ringa; kihai nga kanohi o nga kaumatua i whakahonoretia.

13 Ko nga taitama kei te waha i te huri, hinga ana nga tamariki i te pikaunga wahie.

14 Ko nga kaumatua i nga kuwaha kua kore, me te waiata hoki a nga taitama.

15 Kua mutu te koa o o matou ngakau, kua puta ke ta matou kanikani hei uhunga.

16 Kua taka te karauna o to matou mahunga; aue, te mate mo matou! kua hara hoki matou.

17 Na reira whakaruhi noa iho o matou ngakau; na enei mea pouriuri ana o matou kanohi.

18 Na te maunga hoki o Hiona kua ururuatia nei, e haereerea nei e nga pokiha.

19 Pumau tonu koe, ake ake, e Ihowa; ko tou torona kei tera whakatupuranga, kei tera whakatupuranga.

20 He aha koe i wareware tonu ai ki a matou? he aha koe i whakarere ai i a matou, a roa noa iho nga ra?

21 Whakatahuritia atu matou ki a koe, e Ihowa, a ka tahuri matou: whakahoutia o matou ra, kia rite ki o mua.

22 Otiia kua tino whakakahore rawa koe ki a matou, e tino nui ana tou riri ki a matou.