| Chapter 5 |
1 | Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
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2 | Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
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3 | Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
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4 | Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
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5 | For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
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6 | [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
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7 | Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
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8 | Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
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9 | With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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10 | Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
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11 | Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
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12 | Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
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13 | Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
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14 | The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
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15 | Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
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16 | Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
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17 | For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
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18 | For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
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19 | Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
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20 | Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
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21 | Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
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22 | For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?
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