[1] Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, 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] We have drunken our
water for money; Our wood is sold to us. [5] Our pursuers are on our necks:
We are weary, and have no rest. [6] We have given the hand to the
Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. [7] Our fathers
sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities. [8] Servants rule
over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. [9] We get our
bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
[10] Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
[11] They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
[12] Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not
honored. [13] The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the
wood. [14] The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their
music. [15] The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into
mourning. [16] The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have
sinned. [17] For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are
dim; [18] For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on
it. [19] You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to
generation. [20] Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long
time? [21] Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our
days as of old. [22] But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry
against us.
