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.