The Webster Bible WBT
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7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
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Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.
9 We procured our bread with [the peril of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
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We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
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Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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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.
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The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
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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.
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Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
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