King James Version KJV
New King James Version NKJV
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.
9 We gat 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 wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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They ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And 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 has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto 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 heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim;
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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You, O Lord, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old,
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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Unless You have utterly rejected us, And are very angry with us!
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.