The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
King James Version KJV
1 Remember, ADONAI, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 The land we possessed has been passed on to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We have become fatherless orphans, our mothers now are widows.
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have to pay to drink our own water; we have to buy our own wood.
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 The yoke is on our necks; we are persecuted; we toil to exhaustion but are given no rest.
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 We made pacts with Egypt and Ashur to get enough food.
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist; we bear the weight of their guilt.
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 We are ruled by slaves, and there is no one to save us from their power.
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We get our food at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skins are as black as a furnace because of the searing blasts of famine.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They have raped the women of Tziyon, virgins in the cities of Y'hudah.
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They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hung up by their hands, leaders receive no respect.
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, boys stagger under loads of wood.
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The old men have deserted the city gate, the young men have given up their music.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15 Joy has vanished from our hearts, our dancing has turned into mourning.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our heads. Woe to us! for we have sinned.
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The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 This is why our hearts are sick; this is why our eyes grow dim -
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For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 it's because of Mount Tziyon, so wasted that jackals have overrun it.
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 You, ADONAI, reign forever; your throne endures through all generations.
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Why do you never remember us? Why abandon us for so long a time?
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 ADONAI, turn us back to you; and we will come back; renew our days, as they were in the past -
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Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 unless you have totally rejected us in a fury that knows no limits. [ADONAI, turn us back to you; and we will come back; renew our days, as they were in the past.]
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The King James Version is in the public domain.