1:
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2:
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
3:
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
4:
We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5:
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6:
We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might 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 was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9:
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10:
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11:
They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12:
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
13:
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
14:
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
15:
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
16:
The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
17:
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
18:
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
19:
But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
20:
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
21:
Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
22:
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.