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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5We are pursued--they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is 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 sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For wild animals are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure. |
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