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[1]Lord, haue thou mynde what bifelle to vs; se thou, and biholde oure schenschipe.
[2]Oure eritage is turned to aliens, oure housis ben turned to straungers.
[3]We ben maad fadirles children with out fadir; oure modris ben as widewis.
[4]We drunken oure watir for monei, we bouyten oure trees for siluer.
[5]We weren dryuun bi oure heedis, and reste was not youun to feynt men.
[6]We yauen hond to Egipt, and to Assiriens, that we schulden be fillid with breed.
[7]Oure fadris synneden, and ben not, and we baren the wickidnessis of hem.
[8]Seruauntis weren lordis of vs, and noon was, that ayenbouyte fro the hond of hem.
[9]In oure lyues we brouyten breed to vs, fro the face of swerd in desert.
[10]Oure skynne is brent as a furneis, of the face of tempestis of hungur.
[11]Thei maden low wymmen in Sion, and virgyns in the citees of Juda.
[12]Princes weren hangid bi the hond; thei weren not aschamed of the faces of elde men.
[13]Thei mysusiden yonge wexynge men vnchastli, and children fellen doun in tree.
[14]Elde men failiden fro yatis; yonge men failiden of the queer of singeris.
[15]The ioie of oure herte failide; oure song is turned in to mourenyng.
[16]The coroun of oure heed fellen doun; wo to vs! for we synneden.
[17]Therfor oure herte is maad soreuful, therfor oure iyen ben maad derk.
[18]For the hil of Sion, for it perischide; foxis yeden in it.
[19]But thou, Lord, schal dwelle with outen ende; thi seete schal dwelle in generacioun and in to generacioun.
[20]Whi schalt thou foryete vs with outen ende, schalt thou forsake vs in to lengthe of daies?
[21]Lord, conuerte thou vs to thee, and we schal be conuertid; make thou newe oure daies, as at the bigynnyng.
[22]But thou castynge awei hast cast awei vs; thou art wrooth ayens vs greetli.
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