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Lamentations 5:1

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Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:

Lamentations 5:2

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Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.

Lamentations 5:3

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Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.

Lamentations 5:4

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Our water - for silver, have we drunk, our wood - for a price, cometh in.

Lamentations 5:5

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Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.

Lamentations 5:6

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To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:7

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

Lamentations 5:8

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Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.

Lamentations 5:9

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At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.

Lamentations 5:10

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Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.

Lamentations 5:11

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Women - in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!

Lamentations 5:12

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Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.

Lamentations 5:13

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Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.

Lamentations 5:14

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Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.

Lamentations 5:15

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Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.

Lamentations 5:16

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Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

Lamentations 5:17

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For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:

Lamentations 5:18

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Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.

Lamentations 5:19

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Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:

Lamentations 5:20

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Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?

Lamentations 5:21

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Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;

Lamentations 5:22

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For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us - exceedingly!

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