Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Look at us, and see our disgrace.
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Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
2 Our property is in the hands of strangers; foreigners are living in our homes.
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Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 Our fathers have been killed by the enemy, and now our mothers are widows.
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We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
4 We must pay for the water we drink; we must buy the wood we need for fuel.
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We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
5 Driven hard like donkeys or camels, we are tired, but are allowed no rest.
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Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
6 To get food enough to stay alive, we went begging to Egypt and Assyria.
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We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our ancestors sinned, but now they are gone, and we are suffering for their sins.
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Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
8 Our rulers are no better than slaves, and no one can save us from their power.
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Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
9 Murderers roam through the countryside; we risk our lives when we look for food.
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We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Hunger has made us burn with fever until our skin is as hot as an oven.
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Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
11 Our wives have been raped on Mount Zion itself; in every Judean village our daughters have been forced to submit.
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They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders are shown no respect.
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Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
13 Our young men are forced to grind grain like slaves; boys go staggering under heavy loads of wood.
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The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
14 The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make music.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
15 Happiness has gone out of our lives; grief has taken the place of our dances.
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The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
16 Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.
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The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 We are sick at our very hearts and can hardly see through our tears,
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For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:
18 because Mount Zion lies lonely and deserted, and wild jackals prowl through its ruins.
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for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
19 But you, O Lord, are king forever and will rule to the end of time.
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You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why have you abandoned us so long? Will you ever remember us again?
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Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
21 Bring us back to you, Lord! Bring us back! Restore our ancient glory.
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Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.
22 Or have you rejected us forever? Is there no limit to your anger?
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But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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