| 章 |
| 5:1 |
Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us;behold, and see our disgrace!
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| 5:2 |
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
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| 5:3 |
We have become orphans, fatherless;our mothers are like widows.
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| 5:4 |
We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought.
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| 5:5 |
With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven;we are weary, we are given no rest.
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| 5:6 |
We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
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| 5:7 |
Our fathers sinned, and are no more;and we bear their iniquities.
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| 5:8 |
Slaves rule over us;there is none to deliver us from their hand.
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| 5:9 |
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
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| 5:10 |
Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
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| 5:11 |
Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
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| 5:12 |
Princes are hung up by their hands;no respect is shown to the elders.
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| 5:13 |
Young men are compelled to grind at the mill;and boys stagger under loads of wood.
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| 5:14 |
The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.
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| 5:15 |
The joy of our hearts has ceased;our dancing has been turned to mourning.
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| 5:16 |
The crown has fallen from our head;woe to us, for we have sinned!
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| 5:17 |
For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
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| 5:18 |
for Mount Zion which lies desolate;jackals prowl over it.
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| 5:19 |
But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever;thy throne endures to all generations.
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| 5:20 |
Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?
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| 5:21 |
Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
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| 5:22 |
Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?
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