Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
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Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
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Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
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We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
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We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
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With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
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We have made a pact with Egypt and Assyria, to get enough bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
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Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
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Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
9 We fetched our bread at the peril 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 in the wilderness.
10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
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Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.
11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
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Women are raped in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients.
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Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
13 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
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Young men are compelled to grind, and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
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The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
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The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.
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The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.
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Because of this our hearts are sick, because of these things our eyes have grown dim:
18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
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because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
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But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
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Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you forsaken us these many days?
21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
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Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored; renew our days as of old—
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us.
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unless you have utterly rejected us, and are angry with us beyond measure.
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