1: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and
behold our reproach. |
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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.
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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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8: Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver
us out of their hand. |
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9: 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. |