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[1]Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.
[2]Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
[3]we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
[4]We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:
[5]we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
[6]Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their own satisfaction.
[7]Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.
[8]Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.
[9]We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
[10]Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.
[11]They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.
[12]Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.
[13]The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.
[14]And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
[15]The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
[16]The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
[17]For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.
[18]Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.
[19]But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.
[20]Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
[21]Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.
[22]For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.
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