1   Remember ô Lord what is fallen to vs: behold, and regard our reproch.

2   Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

3   We are made ^note pupils without father: our mothers are as it were widowes.

4   Our water we haue drunke for money: our wood we haue bought for a price.

5   We were led by our neckes, no rest was geuen to the wearie.

6   We ^note haue geuen our hand to Ægypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be filled with bread.

7   Our fathers haue sinned, and they are not: & we haue borne their iniquities.

8   Seruantes haue ruled ouer vs: there was none that would redeme vs out of their hand.

9   In peril of our liues did we fetch vs bread, ^noteat the face of the sword in the desert.

10   Our skinne was burnt as an ouen, by reason of the tempests of famine.

11   They humbled the wemen in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Iuda.

12   The princes were hanged vp by the hand: they did not reuerence the faces of the ancients.

13   Yongmen they abused ^note vnchastly: and the children fel ^note in wood.

14   The ancients decayed out of the gates: the yongmen out of the quier of the singers.

15   The ioy of our hart hath fayled, our quyre is turned into mourning.

16   The ^note crowne of our head is fallen: wo to vs, because we haue sinned.

17   Therfore is our hart made sorowful, therfore are our eyes darkned.

18   For mount Sion, because it is perished, foxes haue walked on it.

19   But thou ô Lord shalt remaine for euer, thy throne in generation and to generation.

20   Why wilt thou for euer be forgetful of vs? wilt thou forsake vs in length of daies?

21    ^noteConuert vs ô Lord to thee, and we shal be conuerted: renew our dayes, as from the beginning.

22   But reiecting thou hast reiected vs, ^note thou art angrie against vs excedingly.

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