1 R emember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

2 O ur inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

3 W e are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

4 W e have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

5 O ur pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

6 W e have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 O ur fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

8 S ervants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

9 W e get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 O ur skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

11 T hey ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

12 P rinces were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

13 T he young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

14 T he elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

15 T he joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

16 T he crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

17 F or this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

18 F or the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

19 T hou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

20 W herefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time?

21 T urn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.

22 B ut thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.