Remember, O LORD, what has been to us; look down and see our shame.
2Our inheritance has turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.
3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunk our water for silver; our wood comes for a price.
5We are pursued on our necks; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.
6We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants rule over us; there is no rescuer out of their hand.
9We bring in our bread with our souls, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever heat of famine.
11They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored.
13They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned.
17Our heart is faint for this; our eyes are dim for these things.
18On the mountain of Zion is laid waste, the foxes walk on it.
19You, O LORD, remain forever; Your throne to generation and generation.
20Why do You forget us forever and forsake us the length of days?
21Return us to You, O LORD, and we will turn; renew our days as of old,
22unless You have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.