Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:

we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.

Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.

We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honored.

The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

The crown has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.

For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.

Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

Turn us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.