1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:
2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,
3 We are orphans and fatherless;
4 We have drunken our water for money;
5 Our pursuers are upon our necks:
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians,
7 Our fathers sinned, and are not;
8 Servants rule over us:
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
10 Our skin is black like an oven,
11 They ravished the women in Zion,
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand:
13 The young men bare the mill;
14 The elders have ceased from the gate,
15 The joy of our heart is ceased;
16 The crown is fallen from our head:
17 For this our heart is faint;
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:
19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever;
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned;
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us;