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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim— |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long? |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old, |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure. |
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