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Lamentations 5
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
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| 5:2
Our inheritance is turned 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 have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. |
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. |
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| 5:6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be
satisfied with bread. |
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| 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we
have borne their iniquities. |
God punished the Israelites for the sins of their faithers.
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| 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of
their hand. |
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| 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the
wilderness. |
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| 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
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| 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. |
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| 5:12
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not
honoured. |
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. |
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| 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. |
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| 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
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| 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! |
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For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. |
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| 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon
it. |
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| 5:19
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to
generation. |
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| 5:20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? |
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| 5:21
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as
of old. |
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| 5:22
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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