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 ^note is sold to us.

5    ^noteOur 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    ^noteOur 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 ^note skin was black like an oven because of the ^note 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    ^noteThe 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, ^note remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20   Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us ^note so long time?

21    ^noteTurn thou us to thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

22    ^noteBut thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

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