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| | Lam 5:1 | Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace!
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| | Lam 5:2 | Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
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| | Lam 5:3 | We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
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| | Lam 5:4 | We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought.
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| | Lam 5:5 | With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
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| | Lam 5:6 | We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
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| | Lam 5:7 | Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
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| | Lam 5:8 | Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
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| | Lam 5:9 | We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
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| | Lam 5:10 | Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
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| | Lam 5:11 | Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
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| | Lam 5:12 | Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
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| | Lam 5:13 | Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.
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| | Lam 5:14 | The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.
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| | Lam 5:15 | The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to 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 | For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
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| | Lam 5:18 | for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.
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| | Lam 5:19 | But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.
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| | Lam 5:20 | Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us?
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| | Lam 5:21 | Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old!
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| | Lam 5:22 | Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?
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