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The Lamentations of Jeremiah, Chapter 5
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our
reproach.
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to
be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their
iniquities.
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us
out of their hand.
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword
of the wilderness.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of
Judah.
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not
honoured.
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the
wood.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
musick.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
mourning.
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The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have
sinned!
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For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes
are dim.
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes
walk upon it.
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to
generation.
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long
time?
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Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;
renew our days as of old.
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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