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1 | Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold
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 | We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. |
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5 | Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. |
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6 | We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians,
to be satisfied with bread. |
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7 | Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their
iniquities. |
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8 | Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver
us out of their hand. |
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9 | We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the
sword of the wilderness. |
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10 | Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible
famine. |
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11 | They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities
of Judah. |
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12 | Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were
not honoured. |
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13 | They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under
the wood. |
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14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
musick. |
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15 | The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
mourning. |
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16 | The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have
sinned! |
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17 | For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are
dim. |
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18 | Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes
walk upon it. |
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19 | Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation
to generation. |
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20 | Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long
time? |
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21 | Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew
our days as of old. |
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22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against
us.
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