1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

1 ¶ Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us:
Behold, and see our reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

2 ¶ Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,
Our houses unto aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

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.

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.

5 ¶ Our pursuers are upon our necks:
We are weary, and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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.

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.

8 ¶ Servants rule over us:
There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

9 ¶ We get 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.

10 ¶ Our skin is black like an oven
Because of the burning heat of famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

11 ¶ They ravished the women in Zion,
The maidens in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

12 ¶ Princes were 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.

13 ¶ The young men bare the mill,
And the children stumbled under the wood.

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

14 ¶ The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

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!

16 ¶ The crown is fallen from our head:
Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

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.

18 ¶ For 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.

19 ¶ Thou, O Lord, abidest for ever;
Thy throne is from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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.

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.

22 ¶ But thou hast utterly rejected us,
Thou art very wroth against us.