¹ Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us:
Consider, and behold 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 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 be satisfied with bread.
⁷ Our fathers have sinned, and are not;
And we have borne their iniquities.
⁸ Servants have ruled over us:
There is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
⁹ We gat our bread with the peril of our lives
Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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 Judah.
¹² Princes are hanged up by their hand:
The faces of elders were not honoured.
¹³ They took the young men to grind,
And the children fell under the wood.
¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their musick.
¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased;
Our dance is turned into mourning.
¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head:
Woe unto us, that we have sinned!
¹⁷ For this our heart is faint;
For these things our eyes are dim.
¹⁸ Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,
The foxes walk upon it.

¹⁹ Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever;
Thy throne from generation to generation.
²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
And forsake us so long time?
²¹ Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;
Renew our days as of old.
²² But thou hast utterly rejected us;
Thou art very wroth against us.