5 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.
⁵ Our necks are under persecution:
we labour, and have no rest.
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.
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!
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?
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.