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Lamentations 5
Lamentations 5
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O LORD, [earnestly] remember what has come upon us! Look down and see our reproach (our national disgrace)!
2
Our inheritance has fallen over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3
We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
4
We have had to pay money to drink the water that belongs to us; our [own] wood is sold to us.
5
Our pursuers are upon our necks [like a yoke]; we are weary and are allowed no rest.
6
We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians [merely] to get food to satisfy [our hunger].
7
Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities. [Isa. 65:7; Jer. 16:11-12; 31:29; Ezek. 18:2-4.]
8
Servants and slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands. [Neh. 5:15.]
9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness [the wild Arabs, who may attack if we venture into the fields to reap our harvests].
10
Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.
11
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12
They hung princes by their hands; the persons of elders were not respected.
13
Young men carried millstones, and boys fell [staggering] under [burdens of] wood.
14
The elders have ceased from [congregating at] the city's gate, the young men from their music.
15
Ceased is the joy of our hearts; our dancing has turned into mourning.
16
The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is brought to the dust]! Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17
Because of this our hearts are faint and sick; because of these things our eyes are dim and see darkly.
18
As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, the jackals prowl over it!
19
But You, O Lord, remain and reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to [all] generations.
20
Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?
21
Turn us to Yourself, O Lord, and we shall be turned and restored! Renew our days as of old!--
22
Or have You utterly rejected us? Or are You exceedingly angry with us [still]?
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