1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:

2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,

3We are orphans and fatherless;

4We have drunken our water for money;

5Our pursuers are upon our necks:

6We have given the hand to the Egyptians,

7Our fathers sinned, and are not;

8Servants rule over us:

9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,

10Our skin is black like an oven,

11They ravished the women in Zion,

12Princes were hanged up by their hand:

13The young men bare the mill;

14The elders have ceased from the gate,

15The joy of our heart is ceased;

16The crown is fallen from our head:

17For this our heart is faint;

18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:

19Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever;

20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,

21Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned;

22But thou hast utterly rejected us;