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| | Lam 5:1 | Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach!
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| | Lam 5:2 | Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
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| | Lam 5:3 | We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.
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| | Lam 5:4 | We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price.
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| | Lam 5:5 | Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
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| | Lam 5:6 | We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
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| | Lam 5:7 | Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.
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| | Lam 5:8 | Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand.
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| | Lam 5:9 | We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness.
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| | Lam 5:10 | Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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| | Lam 5:11 | They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
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| | Lam 5:12 | Princes were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.
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| | Lam 5:13 | Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.
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| | Lam 5:14 | Elders are gone from the gate, Young men from their music.
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| | Lam 5:15 | The joy of our hearts has ceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
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| | Lam 5:16 | The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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| | Lam 5:17 | Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim;
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| | Lam 5:18 | Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, Foxes prowl in it.
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| | Lam 5:19 | You, O Lord, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
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| | Lam 5:20 | Why do You forget us forever? Why do You forsake us so long?
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| | Lam 5:21 | Restore us to You, O Lord, that we may be restored; Renew our days as of old,
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| | Lam 5:22 | Unless You have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly angry with us.
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
