WeBible

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.

16 - The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to 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 - Why dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?

21 - Turn thou us to 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.