| 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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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 necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [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 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 gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. --
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10 |
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. --
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11 |
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah. --
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12 |
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. --
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13 |
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. --
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14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. --
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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, that 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 |
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. --
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19 |
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne 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 LORD, 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. --
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