Lamentations 5 (New International Version)
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Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.1
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Our inheritance2 has been turned over to aliens,3 our homes4 to foreigners.5
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We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers like widows.6
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We must buy the water we drink;7 our wood can be had only at a price.8
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Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary9 and find no rest.10
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We submitted to Egypt and Assyria11 to get enough bread.
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Our fathers12 sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.13
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Slaves14 rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.15
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We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
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Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.16
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Women have been ravished17 in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
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Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders18 are shown no respect.19
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Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
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The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.20
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Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.21
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The crown22 has fallen from our head.23 Woe to us, for we have sinned!24
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Because of this our hearts25 are faint,26 because of these things our eyes27 grow dim28
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for Mount Zion,29 which lies desolate,30 with jackals prowling over it.
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You, O Lord, reign forever;31 your throne endures32 from generation to generation.
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Why do you always forget us?33 Why do you forsake34 us so long?
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Restore35 us to yourself, O Lord, that we may return; renew our days as of old
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unless you have utterly rejected us36 and are angry with us beyond measure.37
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