| Chapter 5 |
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
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We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us. |
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Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest. |
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. |
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. |
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We procured our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. |
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
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They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. |
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Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored. |
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. |
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. |
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The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
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The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned! |
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For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. |
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
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Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? |
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Turn thou us to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. |
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |