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Lamentations 5:6-16

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6 To get food enough to stay alive, we went begging to Egypt and Assyria.
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 Our ancestors sinned, but now they are gone, and we are suffering for their sins.
7 Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.
8 Our rulers are no better than slaves, and no one can save us from their power.
8 Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.
9 Murderers roam through the countryside; we risk our lives when we look for food.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
10 Hunger has made us burn with fever until our skin is as hot as an oven.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
11 Our wives have been raped on Mount Zion itself; in every Judean village our daughters have been forced to submit.
11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders are shown no respect.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
13 Our young men are forced to grind grain like slaves; boys go staggering under heavy loads of wood.
13 Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make music.
14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 Happiness has gone out of our lives; grief has taken the place of our dances.
15 Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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