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

2 O ur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 W e are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4 O ur water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

5 O ur pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

6 W e have given the hand to Egypt, to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

7 O ur fathers have sinned, they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

8 B ondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

9 W e have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 O ur skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

11 T hey have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 P rinces were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

13 T he young men have borne the mill, and the youths have 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 hath 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 have grown dim,

18 B ecause of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

19 T hou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

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

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

22 O r is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?