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Lamentations 5

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¹Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. ²Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. ³We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. ⁴We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. ⁵Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. ⁶We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. ⁷Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. ⁸Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. ⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. ¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. ¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. ¹²Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. ¹³The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. ¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. ¹⁵The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. ¹⁶The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. ¹⁷For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; ¹⁸For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it. ¹⁹Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. ²⁰Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, Andforsake us so long time? ²¹Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. ²²But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.