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Lamentations 5, RSV

5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace!

5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.

5:3 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

5:4 We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought.

5:5 With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.

5:6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.

5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

5:8 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

5:11 Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

5:12 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.

5:13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.

5:14 The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.

5:15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.

5:16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

5:17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,

5:18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

5:19 But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.

5:20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?

5:21 Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!

5:22 Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?

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