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| [1]REMEMBER, O LORD, what has come upon us; behold, and see our reproach. |
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| [2]Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
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| [3]We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
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| [4]We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us. |
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| [5]Our necks are under yokes; we labor, and have no rest. |
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| [6]The Egyptians gave a helping hand, and we looked to the Assyrians to provide bread. |
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| [7]Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities. |
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| [8]Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands. |
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| [9]We get our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. |
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| [10]Our skin has shriveled as though burned in an oven because of the suffering of famine. |
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| [11]Women are ravished in Zion, and virgins in the cities of Judah. |
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| [12]Princes are hanged up by their hands; the faces of the elders are not honored. |
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| [13]The young men grind the mill, and the youths stumble under loads of wood. |
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| [14]The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their joy. |
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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 has fallen from our head; woe to us, for 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 mount Zion is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
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| [19]But thou, O LORD, dost endure for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
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| [20]Therefore do not forget us for ever, nor forsake us for so long a time. |
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| [21]Bring us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old. |
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| [22]For thou hast utterly rejected us; thou hast been exceedingly angry against us. |
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