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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame! |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Our elders have ceased ruling at the gate; our young men have abandoned their music. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The joy of our hearts has ceased, and our dancing has turned into dirges. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The crown has fallen from our head— woe to us, because we have sinned! |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17This is why our hearts faint, and why our eyes grow dim: |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You, LORD, are forever— your throne endures from generation to generation. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So why have you completely forgotten us, forsaking us for so long? |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Restore us to yourself, LORD, so that we may return. Renew our days as before, |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us without limit. |
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