[1] Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach. [2] Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens. [3] We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. [4] We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us. [5] Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest. [6] We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and 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 no one to deliver us out of their hand. [9] We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in 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 hands. The faces of elders were not honored. [13] The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood. [14] The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music. [15] The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning. [16] The crown has 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, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation. [20] Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time? [21] Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old. [22] But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
