✧Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. ✧2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to 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 necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. ✧6We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ✧7Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. ✧8Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand. ✧9We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. ✧10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. ✧11They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah. ✧12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. ✧13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. ✧14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. ✧15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. ✧16The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! ✧17For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim. ✧18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. ✧19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. ✧20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time? ✧21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. ✧22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.