✧Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach. ✧2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens. ✧3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. ✧4We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us. ✧5Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest. ✧6We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ✧7Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities. ✧8Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand. ✧9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in 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 hands. The faces of elders were not honored. ✧13The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood. ✧14The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music. ✧15The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning. ✧16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to 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 on it. ✧19You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation. ✧20Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time? ✧21Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old. ✧22But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.