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| [1]Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
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| [2]Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
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| [3]We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
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| [4]We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. |
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| [5]Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. |
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| [6]We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
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| [7]Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. |
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| [8]Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. |
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| [9]We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
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| [10]Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
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| [11]They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. |
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| [12]Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. |
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| [13]They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. |
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| [14]The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. |
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| [15]The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
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| [16]The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! |
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| [17]For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. |
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| [18]Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
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| [19]Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
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| [20]Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? |
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| [21]Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. |
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| [22]But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |
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