22IT WILL FINISH INIQUITY YOUR O DAUGHTER OF ZION NOT HE WILL INCREASE TO TAKE INTO EXILE YOU HE WILL PUNISH INIQUITY YOUR O DAUGHTER OF EDOM HE WILL MAKE KNOWN ON SINS YOUR 22O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile.*NoteCloseOr He will not exile you again But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.
1REMEMBER O YAHWEH WHAT? HAS IT HAPPENED TO US LOOK! AND SEE <OBJ.> REPROACH OUR A Prayer for Restoration 1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2INHERITANCE OUR IT HAS BEEN TURNED OVER TO STRANGERS HOUSES OUR TO FOREIGNERS 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3FATHERLESS ONES WE HAVE BECOME AND THERE NOT [IS] A FATHER MOTHERS OUR [ARE] LIKE WIDOWS 3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4WATER OUR FOR MONEY WE HAVE DRUNK WOOD<S> OUR FOR A PRICE THEY COME 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5AT NECK OUR WE HAVE BEEN PURSUED WE HAVE BECOME WEARY AND NOT IT HAS BEEN GIVEN REST TO US 5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6EGYPT WE HAVE GIVEN A HAND ASSYRIA TO BE SATISFIED BREAD 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7ANCESTORS OUR THEY SINNED AND NOT [ARE] THEY AND WE INIQUITIES THEIR WE HAVE BORNE 7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8SLAVES THEY HAVE RULED OVER US [IS ONE WHO] RESCUES THERE NOT FROM HAND THEIR 8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9WITH LIFE OUR WE BRING BREAD OUR <FROM> BECAUSE OF [THE] SWORD OF THE WILDERNESS 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10SKIN OUR LIKE AN OVEN THEY HAVE GROWN HOT <FROM> BECAUSE OF [THE] BURNING HEAT OF HUNGER 10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11WOMEN IN ZION MEN HAVE HUMILIATED VIRGINS IN [THE] CITIES OF JUDAH 11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12PRINCES BY HAND THEIR THEY HAVE BEEN HANGED [THE] FACE OF ELDERS NOT THEY HAVE BEEN HONORED 12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13YOUNG MEN A MILL THEY HAVE LIFTED AND YOUNG MEN WITH <THE> WOOD THEY HAVE STAGGERED 13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14OLD [MEN] FROM [THE] GATE THEY HAVE CEASED YOUNG MEN FROM MUSIC THEIR 14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15IT HAS CEASED [THE] JOY OF HEART OUR IT HAS BEEN CHANGED INTO MOURNING DANCING OUR 15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16IT HAS FALLEN [THE] CROWN OF HEAD OUR WOE! PLEASE TO US FOR WE HAVE SINNED 16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17ON THIS IT HAS BECOME FAINT HEART OUR ON THESE [THINGS] THEY HAVE GROWN DIM EYES OUR 17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18ON [THE] MOUNTAIN OF ZION THAT [IS] DESOLATE FOXES THEY HAVE PROWLED ON IT 18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19YOU O YAHWEH FOR EVER YOU WILL SIT THRONE YOUR [IS] TO A GENERATION AND A GENERATION 19You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20<TO> WHY? TO PERPETUITY DO YOU FORGET US DO YOU ABANDON? US FOR LENGTH OF DAYS 20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21CAUSE TO RETURN US O YAHWEH TO YOURSELF SO LET US RETURN RENEW DAYS OUR LIKE ANCIENT TIME 21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22THAT EXCEPT CERTAINLY <TO REJECT> YOU HAVE REJECTED US YOU ARE ANGRY TOWARDS US UP TO MUCHNESS 22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.