Remember, O Lord,
what is come upon us: consider, and behold our
reproach.
02 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our
houses to aliens.
03 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are
as widows.
04 We have drunken our water for money; our wood
is sold unto us.
05 Our necks are under persecution: we labour,
and have no rest.
06 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and
to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
07 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we
have borne their iniquities.
08 Servants have ruled over us: there is none
that doth deliver us out of their hand.
09 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.
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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 music.
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.
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