R<\/span>emember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to 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 is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.<\/span> <\/p>\n