# the days of our ancestors

"the time when our ancestors were alive"

# in great guilt ... In our iniquities

"very guilty ... Because of the evil deeds we did" 

# we ... were given into the hand of kings

"you gave us ... were given into the control of the kings of this world" 

# to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder and ashamed faces

"to our enemies to kill us, to capture us, to steal from us, and to cause us shame"