1 recordare Domine quid acciderit nobis
intuere et respice obprobrium nostrum
2 hereditas nostra versa est ad alienos
domus nostrae ad extraneos
3 pupilli facti sumus absque patre matres nostrae quasi viduae
4 aquam nostram pecunia bibimus ligna nostra pretio conparavimus
5 cervicibus minabamur lassis non dabatur requies
6 Aegypto dedimus manum et Assyriis ut saturaremur pane
7 patres nostri peccaverunt et non sunt
et nos iniquitates eorum portavimus
8 servi dominati sunt nostri non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum
9 in animabus nostris adferebamus panem nobis
a facie gladii in deserto
10 pellis nostra quasi clibanus exusta est a facie tempestatum famis
11 mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt virgines in civitatibus
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12 principes manu suspensi sunt facies senum non erubuerunt
13 adulescentibus inpudice abusi sunt et pueri in ligno corruerunt
14 senes de portis defecerunt iuvenes de choro psallentium
15 defecit gaudium cordis nostri
versus est in luctu chorus noster
16 cecidit corona capitis nostri vae nobis quia peccavimus
17 propterea maestum factum est cor nostrum
ideo contenebrati sunt oculi nostri
18 propter montem Sion quia disperiit
vulpes ambulaverunt in eo
19 tu autem Domine in aeternum permanebis
solium tuum in generatione et generatione
20 quare in perpetuum oblivisceris nostri
derelinques nos in longitudinem dierum
21 converte nos Domine ad te et convertemur
innova dies nostros sicut a principio
22 sed proiciens reppulisti nos iratus es contra nos vehementer
EXPLICIT LIBER HIEREMIAE PROPHETAE1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, 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 have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 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, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. 19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne 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 LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.