- 1. ¶ REMEMBER, O LORD, what has come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
- 2. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- 3. We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- 4. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
- 5. Our necks are under yokes; we labor, and have no rest.
- 6. The Egyptians gave a helping hand, and we looked to the Assyrians to provide bread.
- 7. Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.
- 8. Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands.
- 9. We get our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
- 10. Our skin has shriveled as though burned in an oven because of the suffering of famine.
- 11. Women are ravished in Zion, and virgins in the cities of Judah.
- 12. Princes are hanged up by their hands; the faces of the elders are not honored.
- 13. The young men grind the mill, and the youths stumble under loads of wood.
- 14. The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their joy.
- 15. The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
- 16. The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
- 17. ¶ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
- 18. Because mount Zion is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
- 19. But thou, O LORD, dost endure for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
- 20. Therefore do not forget us for ever, nor forsake us for so long a time.
- 21. Bring us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.
- 22. For thou hast utterly rejected us; thou hast been exceedingly angry against us.
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