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Lamentations 5
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Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
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Our inheritance has been turned over 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 must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
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Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
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We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
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Servants rule over us. There is no one 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 in the wilderness.
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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 hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
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The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
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The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
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The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to 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 on it.
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You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
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Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
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Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
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But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
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