A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.
1aREMEMBER, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
a ch. 2.15; 3.61. Ps. 44.14-16; 79.4; 74.1-4,18-23; 89.50,51; 123.3,4. Ne. 1.3; 4.4.
2Our inheritance is bturned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
b Ps. 79.1,2. De. 28.30-52. Ps. 44.11,12. Is. 63.10. Je. 10.25.
3We are corphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
c Ps. 142.4. Ho. 14.3.
4dWe have drunken our water for money; our wood 1is sold unto us.
1Heb. cometh for price.
d Le. 26.26. De. 28.48. Eze. 4.16,11. Is. 3.1.
52Our necks are under persecution: ewe labour, and have no rest.
2Heb. On our necks are we persecuted, Je. 28.13. De. 28.48,65,66. Le. 26.36.
e Ne. 9.36,37.
6We fhave given the ghand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
f 1Ch. 29.24. g Is. 30.1-6; 31.1-3; 57.9. Eze. 17.18. Je. 2.18,36. Ho. 7.11; 9.3; 12.1.
7hOur fathers have sinned, and iare not; and we have borne their iniquities.
h Je. 31.29. Eze. 18.2. Mat. 23.32,35,36. Ex. 20.5. Le. 26.39. i Ge. 42.13. Ps. 39.13.
8jServants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
j Ne. 2.10,19; 5.15. De. 28.43,48. Pr. 30.22. Is. 19.4.
9We *gat our bread kwith the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
*gat-got.
k 2Sa. 23.17. De. 28.52.
10lOur skin was black like an oven because of the 3terrible famine.
3Or, terrors or storms of.
l Job 30.30. Ps. 119.83. ch. 4.8.
11mThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
m Is. 13.16. Zec. 14.2. De. 28.30,41; 22.25.
12nPrinces are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
n ch. 4.16; 2.10. Je. 52.10,24-27. Is. 47.6.
13oThey took pthe young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
o Ju. 16.21. Ex. 11.5. Is. 47.2. Mat. 24.41. p Is. 16.10; 24.8-11. Je. 7.34; 16.9; 25.10. Re. 18.22,23.
14qThe elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
q 2Ki. 25.18-21. ch. 4.16; 1.4; 2.9,10,21. Is. 16.10; 24.8-11. Je. 7.34; 16.9; 25.10. Re. 18.22,23.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
164The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, rthat we have sinned!
4Heb. The crown of our head is fallen. Job 19.9. Ps. 89.39,40.
r ch. 1.8; 4.13. Je. 2.19; 4.18. Is. 3.9,11.
17sFor this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
s ch. 1.22; 2.11; 3.48-50. Je. 9.1,20,21.
18tBecause of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
t Je. 17.3,12; 52.13. Mi. 3.12. Eze. 7.20-22; 24.21. 1Ki. 9.7,8.
19Thou, O LORD, uremainest for ever; vthy throne from generation to generation.
u Hab. 1.12. Ps. 9.7; 29.10; 10.16; 102.12,28; 145.13; 146.10. v Ps. 45.6.
20wWherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us 5so long time?
5Heb. for length of days.
w Ps. 10.1; 13.1; 44.24.
21Turn thou us xunto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
x Je. 31.18; 32.39,40; 33.11. Ps. 80.3,7,19. Hab. 3.2.
22 6But thou hast yutterly rejected us; thou art very *wroth against us.
6Or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?
*wroth-angry.
y Ps. 60.1; 44.9; 79.5; 89.39-46. Je. 15.1-4. De. 32.22-27. Ho. 1.6.