| Chapter 5 |
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Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach. --
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Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. --
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3 |
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows. --
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4 |
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. --
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For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us. --
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[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. --
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Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne. --
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Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand. --
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With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness. --
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10 |
Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine. --
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11 |
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah. --
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12 |
Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. --
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13 |
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled. --
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14 |
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song. --
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15 |
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing. --
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16 |
Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned. --
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For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim. --
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18 |
For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it. --
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Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation. --
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20 |
Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days! --
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21 |
Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old. --
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22 |
For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly? --
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