| 章 |
| 5:1 |
Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, 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 made a pact with Egypt and Assyria, to get enough bread.
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| 5:7 |
Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.
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| 5:8 |
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
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| 5:9 |
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| 5:10 |
Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.
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| 5:11 |
Women are raped 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, and boys stagger under loads of wood.
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| 5:14 |
The old men have left 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 |
Because of this our hearts are sick, because of these things our eyes have grown dim:
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| 5:18 |
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
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| 5:19 |
But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
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| 5:20 |
Why have you forgotten us completely? Why have you forsaken us these many days?
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| 5:21 |
Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored; renew our days as of old--
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| 5:22 |
unless you have utterly rejected us, and are angry with us beyond measure.
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