1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.