[1]REMEMBER, O LORD, what has come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.[2]Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.[3]We have become 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 yokes; we labor, and have no rest.[6]The Egyptians gave a helping hand, and we looked to the Assyrians to provide bread.[7]Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.[8]Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands.[9]We get our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.[10]Our skin has shriveled as though burned in an oven because of the suffering of famine.[11]Women are ravished in Zion, and virgins in the cities of Judah.[12]Princes are hanged up by their hands; the faces of the elders are not honored.[13]The young men grind the mill, and the youths stumble under loads of wood.[14]The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their joy.[15]The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.[16]The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned[17]For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.[18]Because mount Zion is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.[19]But thou, O LORD, dost endure for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.[20]Therefore do not forget us for ever, nor forsake us for so long a time.[21]Bring us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.[22]For thou hast utterly rejected us; thou hast been exceedingly angry against us.