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.