[1]Remember, O ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, what is come upon us; behold, and see our reproach. [2]Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens. [3]We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. [4]We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price. [5]To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest. [6]We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread enough; [7]Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. [8]Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand. [9]We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. [10]Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine. [11]They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah. [12]Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured. [13]The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood. [14]The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. [15]The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. [16]The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned. [17]For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim; [18]For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. [19]Thou, O ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, art enthroned for ever, Thy throne is from generation to generation. [20]Wherefore dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? [21]Turn Thou us unto Thee, O ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. [22]Thou canst not have utterly rejected us, and be exceeding wroth against us!
 
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