The .v. Chapter.
The prayer of Ieremie.
[unspec A] 1 CAll to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion.
2 Our inheritaunce is turned to the straun∣gers, and our houses to the aliaunts.
3 We are become carefull and father∣lesse, and our mothers are as the wy∣dowes.
4 We are fayne to drinke our owne wa∣ter for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money.
5 Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.
6 [Aforetime] we yeelded our selues to the Egyptians, [and nowe] to the Assyri∣ans, onlye that we might haue bread inough.
[unspec B] 7 Our fathers (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse.
8 Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.
9 We must get our liuing with the pe∣rill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.
10 Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hun∣ger.
11 The wiues are rauished in Sion, and the maydens in the cities of Iuda.
12 The princes are hanged vp with the hand of the enemies, they haue not spa∣red the olde sage men.
13 They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood.
14 The elders sit no more vnder the [unspec C] gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke.
15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our me∣lodious meeting is turned into mour∣ning.
16 The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.
17 Therefore our heart is full of heaui∣nesse, and our eyes dimme.
18 Because of the hill of Sion that is de∣stroyed: insomuch that the foxes runne vpon it.
19 But thou O Lorde, that remaynest for euer, and thy seate worlde without ende:
20 Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long?
21 O Lord turne thou vs vnto thee, and so shall we be turned, renue our dayes as in olde tymes:
22 But thou hast banished vs vtterly, and hast ben displeased at vs.