[1] Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
[2] Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto 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 pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, 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 sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
[8] Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
[9] We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
[10] Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
[11] They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
[12] Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
[13] The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
[14] The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
[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! for we have sinned.
[17] For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
[18] For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
[19] Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is 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 Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
[22] But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.