Chapter 5

  Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.  

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  Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.  

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  We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.  

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  We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.  

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  Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.  

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  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.  

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  Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.  

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  Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.  

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  We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.  

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  Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.  

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

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  Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.  

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  The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.  

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  The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.  

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  The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.  

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  The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.  

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  For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;  

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  For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.  

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  Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.  

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  Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?  

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  Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.  

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  But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.  

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