Book 25 Lamentations Chapter 005
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| 005:001 | Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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| 005:002 | Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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| 005:003 | We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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| 005:004 | We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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| 005:005 | Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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| 005:006 | We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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| 005:007 | Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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| 005:008 | Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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| 005:009 | We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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| 005:010 | Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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| 005:011 | They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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| 005:012 | Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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| 005:013 | They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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| 005:014 | The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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| 005:015 | The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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| 005:016 | The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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| 005:017 | For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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| 005:018 | Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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| 005:019 | Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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| 005:020 | Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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| 005:021 | Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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| 005:022 | But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |