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Lamentations - ch 5 v 1 - 20
- Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
- Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
- Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.
- Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
- For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
- `To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
- Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
- Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
- With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
- Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
- Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
- Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
- The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
- Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
- Fallen hath the crown `from' our head, Wo `is' now to us, for we have sinned.
- For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
- For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
- Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
- Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
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