1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants. 3We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes. 4We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us. 5Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest. 6We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. 8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands. 9We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. 10Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine. 11They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah. 12Princes were hung up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. 15The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning. 16The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned. 17For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim. 18Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it. 19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 20Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time? 21Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 22But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.