See, O LORD, and behold to whom thou have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of LORD?

The youth and the old man lay on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. Thou have slain them in the day of thine anger. Thou have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

Thou have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. And there was none who escaped or remained in the day of LORD's anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.

We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.

Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.

Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.

O LORD, thou have pleaded the causes of my soul. Thou have redeemed my life.

O LORD, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.

Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

Thou have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me,

Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.

Thou will render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.

Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of LORD.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. [Yet] the cup shall pass through to thee also. Thou shall be drunken, and shall make thyself naked.

Thou, O LORD, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.

Why do thou forget us forever, [and] forsake us so long time?

Turn thou us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.

But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.