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¹ Call to remebraunce (O LORDE) what we haue suffred, cosidre and se oure cofucion.² Oure enheritaunce is turned to the straungers, & oure houses to the aleauntes.³ We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and oure mothers are as the wydowes.⁴ We are fayne to drynke oure owne water for moneye, and oure owne wod must we bye with moneye.⁵ Oure neckes are vnder persecucion, we are weery, and haue no rest.⁶ Afore tyme we yelded oure selues to the Egipcians, and now to the Assirians, only that we might haue bred ynough.⁷ Oure fathers (which now are gone) haue synned, & we must beare their wickednesse.⁸ Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man delyuereth vs out of their hodes.⁹ We must get or lyuynge with the parell of oure lyues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.¹⁰ Oure skynne is as it had bene brent in an ouen, for very sore honger.¹¹ The wyues are raueshed in Sion, & the maydens in the cities of Iuda.¹² The prynces are hanged vp with the honde of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men,¹³ they haue taken yonge mens lyues from them, and the boyes are hanged vp vpon trees.¹⁴ The elders syt no more vnder the gates, and the yonge men vse nomore playenge of Musick.¹⁵ The ioye of oure herte is gone, oure mery quere is turned in to mourninge.¹⁶ The garlande of oure heade is fallen: alas, that euer we synned so sore.

¹⁷ Therfore oure hert is full of heuynesse, & oure eyes dymme:¹⁸ because of ye hill of Sion that is destroyed, In so moch, that the foxes runne vpon it.¹⁹ But thou (O LORDE) that remaynest for euermore, and thy seate worlde with out ende:²⁰ Wherfore wilt thou still forget vs, and forsake vs so longe?²¹ O LORDE: Turne thou vs vnto the, & so shal we be turned. Renue or daies as in olde tyme,²² for thou hast now banished vs longe ynough, and bene sore displeased at vs.