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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Remember, LORD, 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 homes to foreigners. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Joy is gone from 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 hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19You, LORD, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long? |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Restore us to yourself, LORD, that we may return; renew our days as of old |
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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