- 1. Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
- 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- 4. Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
- 5. Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
- 6. We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
- 7. Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
- 8. Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
- 9. We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
- 10. Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
- 11. They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
- 12. Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
- 13. The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
- 14. The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
- 15. The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
- 16. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
- 17. For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
- 18. Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
- 19. Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
- 20. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
- 21. Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
- 22. Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
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