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Lamentations 5:7-17

7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

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

8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

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

9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

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

10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

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

11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

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

12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

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

13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

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

14 The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

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

15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

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

16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

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

17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

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

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