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From the Blue Letter Bible
Revised Standard Version
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| Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace! | |
| Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens. | |
| We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. | |
| We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought. | |
| With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest. | |
| We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. | |
| Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. | |
| Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. | |
| We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. | |
| Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. | |
| Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. | |
| Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. | |
| Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood. | |
| The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music. | |
| The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. | |
| The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! | |
| For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, | |
| for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. | |
| But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations. | |
| Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us? | |
| Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old! | |
| Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us? |
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