| Chapter 5 |
1 | Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
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2 | Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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3 | We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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4 | Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
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5 | Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
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6 | We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
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7 | Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
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8 | Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
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9 | We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
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10 | Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
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11 | They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
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12 | Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
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13 | The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
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14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
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15 | The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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16 | The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
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17 | For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
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18 | Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
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19 | Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
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20 | Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
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21 | Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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22 | Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
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