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Lamentations 5 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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A Prayer for Mercy

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O LORD, remember what has come upon us;

Look, and see our reproach (national disgrace)!

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Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

Our houses to foreigners.

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We have become orphans without a father;

Our mothers are like widows.

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We have to pay for our drinking water;

Our wood comes to us at a price.

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Our pursuers are at our necks;

We are worn out, there is no rest for us.

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We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

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Our fathers sinned, and are no more;

It is [fn]we who have carried their sin.

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Servants rule over us;

There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.

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We get our bread at the risk of our lives

Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].

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Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven

Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

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They ravished the women in Zion,

The virgins in the cities of Judah.

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Princes were hung by their hands;

Elders were not respected.

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Young men worked at the grinding mill,

And boys fell [staggering] under loads of wood.

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Elders are gone from the gate;

Young men from their music.

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The joy of our hearts has ended;

Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

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The crown has fallen from our head [our honor is covered with dust]!

Woe to us, for we have sinned!

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Because of this our heart is faint,

Because of these things our eyes are dim.

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As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,

Foxes and the jackals prowl over it.

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But You, O LORD, reign forever;

Your throne endures from generation to [all] generations.

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Why do You forget us forever?

Why do You forsake us so long?

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Return us to You, O LORD, so that we may be restored;

Renew our days as of old,

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Unless You have utterly rejected us

And are exceedingly angry with us.

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Both forefathers and sons were responsible for the disaster that had come on Jerusalem. This generation was equally deserving of punishment.
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