KJV-Parallel Bibles
1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5. Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6. We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8. Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10. Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11. They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12. Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13. They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14. The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15. The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17. For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18. Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19. Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22. But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
1. Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
2. Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
3. Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
4. Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
5. For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
6. [To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7. Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
8. Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
9. With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10. Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
11. Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
12. Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
13. Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
14. The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
15. Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
16. Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
17. For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
18. For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
19. Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
20. Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
21. Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
22. For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?
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