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[1]Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
[2]Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliens.
[3]We are fatherless, even without father, and our mothers are as widows.
[4]We have drunk our water for money, and our wood is sold unto us.
[5]Our necks are under persecution: we are weary, and have no rest.
[6]We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
[7]Our fathers have sinned, and are not, and we have born their iniquities.
[8]Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands.
[9]We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
[10]Our skin was black like as an oven because of the terrible famine.
[11]They defiled the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
[12]The princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of the elders were not had in honor.
[13]They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
[14]The elders have ceased from the gate and the young men from their songs.
[15]The joy of our heart is gone, our dance is turned into mourning.
[16]The crown of our head is fallen: woe now unto us, that we have sinned.
[17]Therefore our heart is heavy for these things, our eyes are dim,
[18]Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate: the foxes run upon it.
[19]But thou, O Lord, remainest forever: thy throne is from generation to generation.
[20]Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?
[21]Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our days as of old.
[22]But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou art exceedingly angry against us.
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