1<\/sup>Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.<\/span> <\/p>\n