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O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. |
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2
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Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. |
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3
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We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. |
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4
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We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. |
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5
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We are pursued— they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest. |
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6
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We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. |
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7
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Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment. |
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8
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Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power. |
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9
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At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside. |
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10
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Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger. |
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11
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They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. |
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12
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Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. |
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13
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The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor. |
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14
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The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. |
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15
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Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning. |
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16
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The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! |
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17
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Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears. |
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18
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For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate. |
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19
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But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. |
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20
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Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long? |
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21
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Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before, |
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22
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unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. |
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