¹⁶ The crown^(A) has fallen from our head.^(B)
    Woe to us, for we have sinned!^(C)

⁴² “We have sinned and rebelled^(A)
    and you have not forgiven.^(B)

¹⁸ “The Lord is righteous,^(A)
    yet I rebelled^(B) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
    look on my suffering.^(C)
My young men and young women
    have gone into exile.^(D)

⁷ In the days of her affliction and wandering
    Jerusalem remembers all the treasures
    that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into enemy hands,
    there was no one to help her.^(A)
Her enemies looked at her
    and laughed^(B) at her destruction.

⁸ Jerusalem has sinned^(C) greatly
    and so has become unclean.^(D)
All who honored her despise her,
    for they have all seen her naked;^(E)
she herself groans^(F)
    and turns away.

²⁰ We acknowledge^(A) our wickedness, Lord,
    and the guilt of our ancestors;^(B)
    we have indeed sinned^(C) against you.