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