[1]Remember, O LORD, what is come upon 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 unto us.[5]Our necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 doth deliver us out of their hand.[9]We gat 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 honoured.[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 musick.[15]The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.[16]The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto 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 upon it.[19]Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.[20]Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?[21]Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.[22]But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.