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