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¹ Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider and beholde our reproch. ² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants. ³ We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes. ⁴ We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs. ⁵ Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest. ⁶ We haue giuen the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷ Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities. ⁸ Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand. ⁹ We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse. ¹⁰ Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine. ¹¹ They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah. ¹² Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured. ¹³ They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood. ¹⁴ The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke. ¹⁵ The ioy of our heart is ceased, our daunce is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The crowne is fallen from our head: Woe vnto vs, that wee haue sinned.

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dimme. ¹⁸ Because of the mountaine of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walke vpon it. ¹⁹ Thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne from generation to generation. ²⁰ Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time? ²¹ Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our dayes as of old. ²² But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art very wroth against vs.