<p class="poetry">We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors;p> <p class="poetry">those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> did indeed accomplish great things for us.p> <p class="poetry">We were happy.p>

<p class="poetry">We have become fatherless orphans;p> <p class="poetry">our mothers have become widows.p>

But we said to him, &#8216;We are honest men; we are not spies!

you must say to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;We were Pharaoh&#8217;s slaves in Egypt, but the <sc>Lordsc> brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="psasuper">A song of ascents.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">When the <sc>Lordsc> restored the well-being of Zion,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">we thought we were dreaming.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">If the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies<n id="1" /> had not left us a few survivors,p> <p class="poetry">we would have quickly become like Sodom,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">we would have become like Gomorrah.p>

<p class="poetry">As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliverp> <p class="poetry">and strains and cries out because of her labor pains,p> <p class="poetry">so were we because of you, O <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">We existed from ancient times,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but you did not rule over them,p> <p class="poetry">they were not your subjects.<n id="2" />p>

We even saw the Nephilim<n id="1" /> there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves<n id="2" /> and to them.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!