Skip to main content- 1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
- 2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
- 3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- 4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
- 5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
- 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- 7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
- 8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
- 10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- 11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
- 12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
- 13The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
- 14The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
- 15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
- 16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
- 17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
- 18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
- 19Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
- 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
- 21Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
- 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.