Lyrics

Verse
Zion has said, "I am forsaken.
The Lord has forgotten me.
Exiled, rejected, despised and afflicted.
The Lord has forgotten me."

Can a mother forget the baby at her breast?
Can a woman forget her nursing child?
Can a mother have no compassion on her babe?
And care not for the child she has borne?

Chorus 1
Yisrael! Yisrael! Even though she may forget,
On the palms of My hands you are engraved.
Yisrael! Yisrael! Though she remember not,
I will have compassion on you.

Repeat verse

Chorus 2
Yisrael! Yisrael! I will not forget,
Your walls are ever in my sight.
Yisrael! Yisrael! I remember you,
I will have compassion on you.