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Remember, O Jehovah, what has been to us; look down and see our shame. |
2
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Our inheritance has turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners. |
3
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We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as widows. |
4
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We have drunk our water for silver; our wood comes for a price. |
5
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We are pursued on our necks; we grow weary; rest is not given to us. |
6
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We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread. |
7
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Our fathers have sinned and are not; we have borne their iniquities. |
8
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Servants rule over us; there is no rescuer out of their hand. |
9
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We bring in our bread with our souls, because of the sword of the wilderness. |
10
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Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever heat of famine. |
11
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They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. |
12
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Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored. |
13
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They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood. |
14
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. |
15
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The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning. |
16
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The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us! For we have sinned. |
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Our heart is faint for this; our eyes are dim for these things. |
18
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On the mountain of Zion is laid waste, the foxes walk on it. |
19
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You, O Jehovah, remain forever; Your throne to generation and generation. |
20
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Why do You forget us forever and forsake us the length of days? |
21
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Return us to You, O Jehovah, and we will turn; renew our days as of old, |
22
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unless You have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us. |
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