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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Yahweh, remember 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 orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5We are closely pursued; we are tired, and no one offers us rest. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We made a treaty with Egypt and with Assyria, to get enough food. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist, but we bear their punishment. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Slaves rule over us; no one rescues us from their hands. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9We secure our food 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 from the ravages of hunger. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Women are raped in Zion, girls in the cities of Judah. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The elders have left the city gate, the young men, 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 heart is sick; because of these, our eyes grow dim: |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You, LORD, are enthroned forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why have You forgotten us forever, abandoned us for our entire lives? |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21 LORD, restore us to Yourself, so we may return; renew our days as in former times, |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22unless You have completely rejected us and are intensely angry with us. |
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