1Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.¶ 2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, 3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.¶ 4We have to pay for a drink of water; 5Our pursuers are on our necks; 6We have submitted to the Egyptians and 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; 8Servants rule over us: 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, 10Our skin is hot like an oven, 11They raped the women in Zion, 12Princes were hanged by their hands; 13The young men grind at the mill; 14The elders have gone from the gate, 15The joy of our heart has ceased; 16The crown is fallen from our head; 17For this our heart is faint; 18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; 19You, LORD, abide forever; 20Why do you keep on forgetting us? 21Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; 22unless you have completely rejected us and