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- Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!
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- Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
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- We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
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- We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
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- Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.
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- We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
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- Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
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- Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
- 9
- We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
- 10
- Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
- 11
- Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
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- Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
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- Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.
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- The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.
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- The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
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- The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
- 17
- For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
- 18
- for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
- 19
- But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
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- Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days?
- 21
- Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old—
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- unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.
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