| Chapter 5 |
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| Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. |
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| Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. |
3
| We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. |
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| We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. |
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| Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. |
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| We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
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| Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. |
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| Servants rule over us: There is none 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 of 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 hand: The faces of elders were not honored. |
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| The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. |
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| The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. |
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| The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. |
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| The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto 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 upon it. |
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| Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. |
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| Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time? |
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| Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, 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. |