1. Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;look, and see our disgrace!
2. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our homes to foreigners.
3. We have become orphans, fatherless;our mothers are like widows.
4. We must pay for the water we drink;the wood we get must be bought.
5. Our pursuers are at our necks;we are weary; we are given no rest.
6. We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,to get bread enough.
7. Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
8. Slaves rule over us;there is none to deliver us from their hand.