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\c 5
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\v 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has happened to us
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\q look and see our disgrace.
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\v 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers;
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\q our houses to foreigners.
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\v 3 We have become orphans, the fatherless,
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\q and our mothers are like widows.
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\q
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\v 4 We must pay silver for the water we drink,
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\q and we must pay silver to get our own wood.
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\v 5 Those who are coming after us are close behind us;
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\q we are weary and we can find no rest.
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\q
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\v 6 We have given ourselves to Egypt and to Assyria
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\q to get enough food.
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\v 7 Our fathers sinned, and they are no more,
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\q and we bear their iniquities.
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\v 8 Slaves rule over us,
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\q and there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
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\v 9 We get our bread only by risking our lives,
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\q because of the sword in the wilderness.
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\v 10 Our skin has grown as hot as an oven
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\q because of the burning heat of hunger.
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\v 11 Women are raped in Zion,
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\q and virgins in the cities of Judah.
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\q
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\v 12 Princes are hung up by their own hands,
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\q and no honor is shown to the elders.
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\v 13 Young men are forced to grind grain with a millstone,
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\q and boys stagger under heaven loads of wood.
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\v 14 The elders have left the city gate,
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\q and the young men have left their music.
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\q
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\v 15 The joy of our heart has ceased
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\q and our dancing has turned into mourning.
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\v 16 The crown has fallen from our head;
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\q woe to us, for we have sinned!
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\v 17 For this our heart has become sick,
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\q and our eyes have grown dim,
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\q for these things our eyes grow dim
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\q
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\v 18 for Mount Zion lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
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\v 19 But you, Yahweh, reign forever,
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\q and you will sit upon your throne from generation to generation.
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\v 20 Why do you forget us forever?
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\q Why do you forsake us for so many days?
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\q
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\v 21 Restore us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be restored.
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\q Renew our days as they were long ago—
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\v 22 unless you have utterly rejected us
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\q and you are angry with us beyond measure.
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