[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 drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. is...: Heb. cometh for price
[5]
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted
[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 gat 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. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms
[11]
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
[12]
Princes are 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.
[14]
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
[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! The...: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen
[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]
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? so...: Heb. for length of days?
[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. But...: or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?

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