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