Hebrew Names Version HNV
American Standard Version ASV
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
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Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
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Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
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We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
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We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
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Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Mitzrim, To the Ashshur, to be satisfied with bread.
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
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Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
11 They ravished the women in Tziyon, The virgins in the cities of Yehudah.
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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of Zakenim were not honored.
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Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
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The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
14 The Zakenim have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
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The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
18 For the mountain of Tziyon, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
19 You, LORD, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
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Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
20 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
21 Turn you us to you, LORD, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
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Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.
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