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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 drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. | |
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 gat 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 are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. | |
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 musick. | |
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. | |
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! | |
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. | |
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. | |
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. | |
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? | |
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. | |
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. | |
