| 1 |
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see 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 |
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price. |
| 5 |
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest. |
| 6 |
We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 7 |
Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities. |
| 8 |
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. |
| 9 |
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 10 |
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine. |
| 11 |
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah. |
| 12 |
Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured. |
| 13 |
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled 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 |
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned! |
| 17 |
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, |
| 18 |
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it. |
| 19 |
Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation. |
| 20 |
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time? |
| 21 |
Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. |
| 22 |
Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us? |
