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[1]Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see 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]Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
[5]Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
[6]We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
[7]Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
[8]Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
[9]We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
[10]Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
[11]They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
[12]Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
[13]The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
[14]The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
[15]The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
[16]The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
[17]For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
[18]Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
[19]Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
[20]Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
[21]Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
[22]Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
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