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Lamentations 5


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1:   Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2:   Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3:   We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4:   We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5:   Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6:   We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7:   Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8:   Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9:   We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10:   Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11:   They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12:   Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13:   They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14:   The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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, that we have sinned!
17:   For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18:   Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19:   Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne 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 LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22:   But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.