Lamentations 5
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1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
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2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
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3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
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4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
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5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
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6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
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8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
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12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
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13 The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
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14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
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15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
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16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
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17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
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19 Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
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20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
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21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
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22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.