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Lamentations 5

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¹ O Lord, [earnestly] remember what has come upon us! Look down and see our reproach (our national disgrace)!

² Our inheritance has fallen over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

³ We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

⁴ We have had to pay money to drink the water that belongs to us; our [own] wood is sold to us.

⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks [like a yoke]; we are weary and are allowed no rest.

⁶ We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians [merely] to get food to satisfy [our hunger].

⁷ Our fathers sinned and are no more, and [1]we have borne their iniquities. ⓐ

⁸ Servants and slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands. ⓑ

⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness [the wild Arabs, who may attack if we venture into the fields to reap our harvests].

¹⁰ Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

¹² They hung princes by their hands; the persons of elders were not respected.

¹³ Young men carried millstones, and boys fell [staggering] under [burdens of] wood.

¹⁴ The elders have ceased from [congregating at] the city’s gate, the young men from their music.

¹⁵ Ceased is the joy of our hearts; our dancing has turned into mourning.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is brought to the dust]! Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷ Because of this our hearts are faint and sick; because of these things our eyes are dim and see darkly.

¹⁸ As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, the jackals prowl over it!

¹⁹ But You, O Lord, remain and reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to [all] generations.

²⁰ Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?

²¹ Turn us to Yourself, O Lord, and we shall be turned and restored! Renew our days as of old! —

²² Or have You utterly rejected us? [2]Or are You exceedingly angry with us [still]?

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1	O Lord, [earnestly] remember what has come upon us! Look down and see our reproach (our national disgrace)!
2	Our inheritance has fallen over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3	We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
4	We have had to pay money to drink the water that belongs to us; our [own] wood is sold to us.
5	Our pursuers are upon our necks [like a yoke]; we are weary and are allowed no rest.
6	We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians [merely] to get food to satisfy [our hunger].
7	Our fathers sinned and are no more, and [1]we have borne their iniquities. ⓐ
8	Servants and slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands. ⓑ
9	We get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness [the wild Arabs, who may attack if we venture into the fields to reap our harvests].
10	Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.
11	They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12	They hung princes by their hands; the persons of elders were not respected.
13	Young men carried millstones, and boys fell [staggering] under [burdens of] wood.
14	The elders have ceased from [congregating at] the city’s gate, the young men from their music.
15	Ceased is the joy of our hearts; our dancing has turned into mourning.
16	The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is brought to the dust]! Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17	Because of this our hearts are faint and sick; because of these things our eyes are dim and see darkly.
18	As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, the jackals prowl over it!
19	But You, O Lord, remain and reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to [all] generations.
20	Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?
21	Turn us to Yourself, O Lord, and we shall be turned and restored! Renew our days as of old! —
22	Or have You utterly rejected us? [2]Or are You exceedingly angry with us [still]?

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