1 Remember,oh, Jehovah, what has come upon us: consider and see 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 drunk 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 who does deliver us out of their hand.
9 We got 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 humiliated the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up 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 mind is 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 mind 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 You, oh, Jehovah, dwell through the Kingdom Age; Your throne through the Age of the Age.
20 Why do you forget us, testing our endurance, and forsake us so long time?
21 Turn us to You, oh, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But You have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.