Lamentations 5
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Remember, O LORD,
what is come upon us:
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consider, and behold our
reproach. |
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2 |
Our inheritance is turned to
strangers,
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3 |
We are orphans and fatherless,
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our mothers are as
widows. |
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4 |
We have drunken our water for money;
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our wood is sold unto
us. |
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5 |
Our necks are under
persecution:
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we labor, and have no
rest. |
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6 |
We have given the hand to the
Egyptians, and to the Assyrians,
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to be satisfied with
bread. |
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7 |
Our fathers have sinned, and are not;
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and we have borne their
iniquities. |
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8 |
Servants have ruled over us:
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there is none that doth deliver us out
of their
hand. |
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9 |
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives,
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because of the sword of the
wilderness. |
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10 |
Our skin was black like an oven,
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because of the terrible
famine. |
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11 |
They ravished the women in Zion,
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and the maids in the cities of
Judah. |
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12 |
Princes are hanged up by their hand:
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the faces of elders were not
honored. |
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13 |
They took the young men to grind,
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and the children fell under the
wood. |
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14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate,
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the young men from their
music. |
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15 |
The joy of our heart is ceased;
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our dance is turned into
mourning. |
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16 |
The crown is fallen from our
head:
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woe unto us, that we have
sinned! |
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17 |
For this our heart is faint;
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for these things our eyes are
dim. |
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18 |
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is
desolate,
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Thou, O LORD,
remainest for ever;
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thy throne from generation to
generation. |
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20 |
Wherefore dost thou forget us for
ever,
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and forsake us so long
time? |
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21 |
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;
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renew our days as of
old. |
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22 |
But thou hast utterly rejected us;
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