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1 Remember , O LORD, what is come upon us: consider , and behold our reproach.
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1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
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2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers , our houses to aliens.
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2 Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, our homes to foreigners.
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3 We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows.
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3 We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers like widows.
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4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
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5 Our necks are under persecution : we labour , and have no rest .
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5 Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
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6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
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7 Our fathers have sinned , and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
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8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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8 Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.
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9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
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10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
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11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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11 Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
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12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured .
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12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
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13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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13 Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
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14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
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15 The joy of our heart is ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning.
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15 Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
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16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned !
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16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim .
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17 Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
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18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate , the foxes walk upon it.
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18 for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
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19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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19 You, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
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20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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20 Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
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21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned ; renew our days as of old.
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21 Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old
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22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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22 unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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