| Chapter 5 |
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 drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
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5 | Our necks are under persecution: we labor, 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 procured 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 were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
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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 music.
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15 | The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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16 | The crown is fallen from our head: woe to 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 | Why dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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21 | Turn thou us to 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.
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