| 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 drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us. |
| 5. | Our necks are under persecution: we labor, 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 procured 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 were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored. |
| 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 hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 16. | The crown is fallen from our head: woe to 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. | Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? |
| 21. | Turn thou us to 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. |