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Lamentations 5
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1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us:
- Look, and see our reproach.
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2Our inheritance is turned to strangers,
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3We are orphans and fatherless;
- Our mothers are as widows.
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4We have drunken our water for money;
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5Our pursuers are on our necks:
- We are weary, and have no rest.
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6We have given the hand to the Egyptians,
- To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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7Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
- We have borne their iniquities.
- There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
- Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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10Our skin is black like an oven,
- Because of the burning heat of famine.
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11They ravished the women in Zion,
- The virgins in the cities of Judah.
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12Princes were hanged up by their hand:
- The faces of elders were not honored.
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13The young men bare the mill;
- The children stumbled under the wood.
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14The elders have ceased from the gate,
- The young men from their music.
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15The joy of our heart is ceased;
- Our dance is turned into mourning.
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16The crown is fallen from our head:
- Woe to us! for we have sinned.
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17For this our heart is faint;
- For these things our eyes are dim;
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18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:
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19You, Yahweh, remain forever;
- Your throne is from generation to generation.
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20Why do you forget us forever,
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And forsake us so long time?
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21Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned.
- Renew our days as of old.
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22But you have utterly rejected us;
- You are very angry against us.
