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Chapter 5 |
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 6 | We have given the hand to
the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 7 | Our fathers have sinned, and are
not; and we have borne their iniquities. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 10 | Our
skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
| 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. |
| 13 | They
took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. |
| 14 | The elders have ceased from the
gate, the young men from their musick. |
| 15 | The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned
into mourning. |
| 16 | The
crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! |
| 17 | For this our heart is faint; for
these things our eyes are dim. |
| 18
| Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk
upon it. |
| 19 | Thou, O
LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
| 20 | Wherefore dost thou forget us
for ever, and forsake us so long time? |
| 21 | Turn thou us unto 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. |
