WeBible

1 - Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

2 - Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

3 - Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers <FI>are<Fi> as widows.

4 - Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

5 - For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured--there hath been no rest for us.

6 - <FI> To<Fi> Egypt we have given a hand, <FI>To<Fi> Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

7 - Our fathers have sinned--they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

8 - Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

9 - With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 - Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.

11 - Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins--in cities of Judah.

12 - Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

13 - Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

14 - The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

15 - Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

16 - Fallen hath the crown <FI>from<Fi> our head, Woe <FI>is<Fi> now to us, for we have sinned.

17 - For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.

18 - For the mount of Zion--that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.

19 - Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.

20 - Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!

21 - Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.

22 - For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us--exceedingly?