[1] Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.
[2] Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
[3] We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
[4] We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
[5] Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
[6] We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
[7] Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
[8] Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
[9] We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
[10] Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
[11] They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
[12] Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
[13] They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
[14] The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
[15] The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
[16] The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
[17] For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
[18] Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.
[19] You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
[20] Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
[21] Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
[22] But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.
