¹Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

¹Spomeni se, Jahve, što nas je snašlo, pogledaj, vidi sramotu našu!

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

²Baština naša pade u ruke strancima, domovi naši pripadoše tuđincima.

³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

³Siročad smo: oca nemamo, majke su nam kao udovice.

⁴We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

⁴Vodu što pijemo plaćamo novcem, i za drvo valja nam platiti.

⁵Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

⁵Jaram nam je o vratu, gone nas, iscrpljeni smo, ne daju nam predahnuti.

⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁶Pružamo ruke k Egiptu i Asiriji da se kruha nasitimo.

⁷Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

⁷Oci naši zgriješiše i više ih nema, a mi nosimo krivice njihove.

⁸Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

⁸Robovi nama zapovijedaju, a nitko da nas izbavi iz ruku njihovih.

⁹We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

⁹Kruh svoj donosimo izlažući život maču u pustinji.

¹⁰Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

¹⁰Koža nam gori kao peć užarena, ognjicom od plamena gladi.

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

¹¹Oskvrnuli su žene na Sionu i djevice u gradovima judejskim.

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

¹²Svojim su rukama vješali knezove, ni lica staračka nisu poštivali.

¹³They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

¹³Mladići su nosili žrvnjeve, djeca padala pod bremenom drva.

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

¹⁴Starci su ostavili vrata, mladići više ne sviraju na lirama.

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

¹⁵Radosti nesta iz naših srdaca, naš ples se pretvori u tugovanje.

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

¹⁶Pao je vijenac s naše glave, jao nama što zgriješismo!

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

¹⁷Evo zašto nam srce boluje, evo zašto nam oči se zastiru:

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

¹⁸zato što Gora sionska opustje i po njoj se šuljaju šakali.

¹⁹Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

¹⁹Ali ti, Jahve, ostaješ zauvijek, tvoj je prijesto od koljena do koljena.

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

²⁰Zašto da nas zaboraviš zauvijek, da nas ostaviš za mnoge dane?

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

²¹Vrati nas k sebi, Jahve, obratit ćemo se, obnovi dane naše kao što nekoć bijahu.

²²But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

²²Il' nas hoćeš sasvim zabaciti i na nas se beskrajno srditi?