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Lamentations 5:1

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O Jehovah, remember what has been to us; look upon and see our reproach.

Lamentations 5:2

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Our inheritance has been turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.

Lamentations 5:3

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We are orphans. There is no father; our mothers are like widows.

Lamentations 5:4

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We have drunk our water for silver; our wood comes for a price.

Lamentations 5:5

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We are pursued; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.

Lamentations 5:6

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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, to the Assyrian, in order to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:7

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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; we have borne their iniquities.

Lamentations 5:8

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Slaves rule over us; there is no rescuer from their hand.

Lamentations 5:9

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We bring in our bread with our souls, from the face of the sword of the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:10

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Our skin is burned black like an oven, because of the fever heat of famine.

Lamentations 5:11

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They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12

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Rulers were hanged by their hands; the faces of the elders were not honored.

Lamentations 5:13

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They lifted the young men to the hand mill, and the youths stumbled at the wood.

Lamentations 5:14

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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

Lamentations 5:15

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The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned to mourning.

Lamentations 5:16

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The crown has fallen from our head. Woe now to us, for we have sinned!

Lamentations 5:17

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For this our heart is faint; our eyes are dim for these things .

Lamentations 5:18

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Zion is laid waste on the mountain; foxes walk about on it.

Lamentations 5:19

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O Jehovah, You remain forever; Your throne to generation and generation.

Lamentations 5:20

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Why do You forget us forever, forsake us the length of days?

Lamentations 5:21

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Return us to You, O Jehovah, and we shall return. Renew our days as of old,

Lamentations 5:22

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for You have utterly rejected us; You are exceedingly angry against us.

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