1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold 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. We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
5. Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
6. We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8. Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9. We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
10. Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11. They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12. Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
13. They took the young men to grind, and the children fell 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.