^4 (A)How shall we sing the Lord's song
    in a foreign land?
⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
    ^(B)let my right hand forget its skill!
⁶ Let my ^(C)tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
    above my highest joy!

⁷ Remember, O Lord, against the ^(D)Edomites
    ^(E)the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, ^(F)“Lay it bare, lay it bare,
    down to its foundations!”
⁸ O daughter of Babylon, ^(G)doomed to be destroyed,
    blessed shall he be who ^(H)repays you
    with what you have done to us!
⁹ Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
    and ^(I)dashes them against the rock!

¹⁶ “For these things ^(A)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for ^(B)a comforter is far from me,
    one to ^(C)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”

^17 (D)Zion stretches out her hands,
    but ^(E)there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
    a filthy thing among them.

^18 (F)“The Lord is in the right,
    ^(G)for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
    and see my suffering;
^(H)my young women and my young men
    have gone into captivity.

¹⁹ “I called to ^(I)my lovers,
    but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
    perished in the city,
while ^(J)they sought food
    to revive their strength.

²⁰ “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    ^(K)my stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
    because I have been very rebellious.
^(L)In the street the sword bereaves;
    in the house it is like death.

²¹ “They heard^{[a] (M)}my groaning,
    yet ^(N)there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
    ^(O)they are glad that you have done it.
You have brought^[b] the day you announced;
    ^(P)now let them be as I am.

^22 (Q)“Let all their evildoing come before you,
    and deal with them
as ^(R)you have dealt with me
    because of all my transgressions;
for ^(S)my groans are many,
    and ^(T)my heart is faint.”