^{1 Ref} Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

^{2 Ref} Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

^{3 Ref} We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

^{4 Ref} We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

^{5 Ref} Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

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

^{7 Ref} Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

^{8 Ref} Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

^{9 Ref} We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

^{10 Ref} Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

^{11 Ref} They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

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

^{13 Ref} They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

^{14 Ref} The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

^{15 Ref} The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

^{16 Ref} The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!