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Lamentations 5:7-17

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

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

8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

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

10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

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

11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

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

12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

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

13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

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

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

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 dance 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! for we have sinned.

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

17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

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

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