1. Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us;look, and see our reproach!
2. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our homes to foreigners.
3. We have become orphans and fatherless;our mothers are like widows.
4. We must pay for the water we drink;our wood is sold to us.
5. Our pursuers are at our necks;we labor and have no rest.
6. We have given our hand to Egypt and to Assyria,to be satisfied with bread.
7. Our fathers sinned and are no more,but we bear their iniquities.
8. Slaves rule over us;there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
9. We get our bread at the peril of our lives,because of the sword in the wilderness.
10. Our skin is hot as an oven,because of the terrible famine.
11. They ravished the women in Zion,the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12. Princes were hung up by their hands,the faces of elders were not honored.