Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, children of their tender care? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us; look down and behold our reproach.

Return, we beseech You, O God of Hosts; look down from Heaven and look upon and visit this vine,

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of Your face.

For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from Heaven Jehovah has looked upon the earth,

to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to set free the children of death,

I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never be silent day or night; you who remember Jehovah, do not keep silent.

And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Look down from Heaven, and look down from the place of Your holiness and of Your glory. Where is Your zeal and Your strength, the multitude of Your tender affections and of Your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?

Oh that You would rend the heavens and come down! That the mountains would quake at Your presence,

O Lord, I pray, according to all Your righteousness, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. For because of our sins and for our fathers' iniquities, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.

O my God, bow down Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not make our supplications before You on account of our righteousness, but because of Your great mercies.