| Chapter 5 |
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Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. --
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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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We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. --
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Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, 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 sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. --
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Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. --
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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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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. --
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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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The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. --
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The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. --
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For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; --
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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it. --
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Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. --
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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. --
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