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Lamentations - ch 5 v 1 - 20
- Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
- Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
- We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
- Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
- We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
- Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
- Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
- The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
- The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
- The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
- The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
- For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
- For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
- You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
- Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?
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