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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach! |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand. |
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 has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The joy of our hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into 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 faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim; |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, Foxes prowl in it. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You, O LORD, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long? |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Restore us to You, 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 are exceedingly angry with us. |
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