5 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:
Behold, and see our reproach.
² Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,
Our houses unto aliens.
³ We are orphans and fatherless;
Our mothers are as widows.
⁴ We have drunken our water for money;
Our wood ^[a]is sold unto us.
⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks:
We are weary, 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 sinned, and are not;
And we have borne their iniquities.
⁸ Servants rule over us:
There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
Because of the sword of the wilderness.
¹⁰ Our skin is ^[b]black like an oven,
Because of the burning heat of famine.
¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
¹² Princes were hanged up by their hand:
The faces of elders were not honored.
¹³ The young men bare the mill;
And the children stumbled under the wood.
¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.
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! for we have sinned.
¹⁷ For this our heart is faint;
For these things our eyes are dim;
¹⁸ For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:
The ^[c]foxes walk upon it.

¹⁹ Thou, O Jehovah, ^[d]abidest for ever;
Thy throne is 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 Jehovah, and we shall be turned;
Renew our days as of old.
^22 [e]But thou hast utterly rejected us;
Thou art very wroth against us.