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5 : 1 Remember, OLord, what has befallen us;look, and seeour disgrace!
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5 : 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our homes to foreigners.
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5 : 3 We have become orphans, fatherless;our mothers are like widows.
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5 : 4 We must pay for the water we drink;the wood we get must be bought.
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5 : 5 Our pursuers are at our necks;we are weary; we are given no rest.
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5 : 6 We have given the hand toEgypt, and toAssyria,to get bread enough.
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5 : 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more;and we bear their iniquities.
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5 : 8 Slaves rule over us;there is none to deliver us from their hand.
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5 : 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,because of the sword in the wilderness.
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5 : 10 Our skin is hot as an ovenwiththe burning heat of famine.
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5 : 11 Women are raped in Zion,young women in the towns of Judah.
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5 : 12 Princes are hung up by their hands;no respect is shown to the elders.
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5 : 13 Young men are compelled togrind at the mill,and boys staggerunder loads of wood.
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5 : 14 The old men have left the city gate,the young mentheir music.
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5 : 15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;our dancing has been turned to mourning.
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5 : 16 The crown has fallen from our head;woe to us, for we have sinned!
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5 : 17 For thisour heart has become sick,for these thingsour eyes have grown dim,
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5 : 18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;jackals prowl over it.
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5 : 19 But you, OLord, reign forever;your throne endures to all generations.
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5 : 20 Why do you forget us forever,why do you forsake us for so many days?
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5 : 21 Restore us to yourself, OLord, that we may be restored!Renew our days as of old&emdash;
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5 : 22 unless you have utterly rejected us,and you remain exceedingly angry with us.
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