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[1]Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
[2]Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
[3]We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
[4]We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
[5]We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
[6]We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might 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 was none to redeem us out of their hand.
[9]We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
[10]Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
[11]They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
[12]The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
[13]They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
[14]The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
[15]The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
[16]The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
[17]Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
[18]For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
[19]But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
[20]Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
[21]Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
[22]But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
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