Third Millennium Bible TMB
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider, and behold our reproach.
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"Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Take a look at our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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"The land we inherited has been turned over to strangers. Our homes have been turned over to foreigners.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows.
4 We have paid money for water we drink; our wood is sold unto us.
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We have to pay to drink our own water. We have to pay to chop our own wood.
5 Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.
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[Our enemies] are breathing down our necks. We are worn out [and] not permitted to rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be provided with bread.
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We had to beg Egypt and Assyria for food.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Our ancestors sinned. Now they are gone, [but] we have to take the punishment for their wickedness.
8 Servants have ruled over us; there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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Slaves rule us. There is no one to rescue us from them.
9 We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
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To get our food, we have to risk our lives in the heat of the desert.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Women in Zion are raped, so are the girls in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honored.
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[Our] leaders are hung by their hands. [Our] older leaders are shown no respect.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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[Our] young men work at the mill, and [our] boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
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[Our] older leaders have stopped meeting at the city gate, and [our] young men no longer play their music.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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There is no joy left in our hearts. Our dancing 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. Because we have sinned, it has been disastrous for us.
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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This is why we feel sick. This is why our eyes see less and less.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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Foxes roam around on Mount Zion, which lies in ruins.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever, Thy throne from generation to generation.
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"But you, O LORD, sit enthroned forever, and your reign continues throughout every generation.
20 Why dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long a time?
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Why have you completely forgotten us? Why have you abandoned us for such a long time?
21 Turn Thou us unto Thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned! Renew our days as of old!--
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O LORD, bring us back to you, and we'll come back. Give us back the life we had long ago,
22 But Thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.
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unless you have completely rejected us [and] are very angry with us."
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.
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