| 1 ¶ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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| 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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| 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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| 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is1 sold unto us.
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| 5 Our2 necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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| 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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| 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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| 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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| 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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| 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible3 famine.
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| 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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| 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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| 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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| 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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| 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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| 16 The4 crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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| 17 ¶ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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| 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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| 19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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| 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so5 long time?
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| 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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| 22 But6 thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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