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

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

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

KJV ⁴ We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

KJV ⁵ Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

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

KJV ⁷ Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

KJV ⁸ Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

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

KJV ¹⁰ Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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

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

KJV ¹³ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

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

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

KJV ¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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

KJV ¹⁸ Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

KJV ¹⁹ Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

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

KJV ²¹ Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

KJV ²² But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.