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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been 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] | 17For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old— |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us. |
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