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1 Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
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Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
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Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
3 We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.
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We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
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We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
5 Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
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Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
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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 are no more, and we bear their punishment.
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Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
8 Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.
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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 risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
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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 hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
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Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13 Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
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The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
15 Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to 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 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 Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
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For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
18 for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
19 You, LORD, reign forever; your throne endures 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 always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
21 Restore us to yourself, LORD, that we may return; 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 unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.
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