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Lamentations 5:1. Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
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Lamentations 5:2. Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
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Lamentations 5:3. We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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Lamentations 5:4. We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
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Lamentations 5:5. Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
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Lamentations 5:6. We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
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Lamentations 5:7. Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
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Lamentations 5:8. Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
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Lamentations 5:9. We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
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Lamentations 5:10. Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
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Lamentations 5:11. They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
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Lamentations 5:12. Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
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Lamentations 5:13. The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
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Lamentations 5:14. The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
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Lamentations 5:15. The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
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Lamentations 5:16. The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
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Lamentations 5:17. Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
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Lamentations 5:18. Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
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Lamentations 5:19. You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
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Lamentations 5:20. Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
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Lamentations 5:21. Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
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Lamentations 5:22. But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
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