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Lamentations 5:7-17

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

7 Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

8 Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.

9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.

12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.

12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

13 Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.

15 Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

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

17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

17 Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim

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