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Lamentations 5:1
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider,
and behold our reproach. |
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Lamentations 5:2
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our
houses to aliens. |
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Lamentations 5:3
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are
as widows. |
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Lamentations 5:4
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood
is sold unto us. |
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Lamentations 5:5
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour,
and have no rest. |
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Lamentations 5:6
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and
to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
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Lamentations 5:7
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we
have borne their iniquities. |
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Lamentations 5:8
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that
doth deliver us out of their hand. |
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Lamentations 5:9
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives
because of the sword of the wilderness. |
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Lamentations 5:10
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the
terrible famine. |
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Lamentations 5:11
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They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids
in the cities of Judah. |
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Lamentations 5:12
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces
of elders were not honoured. |
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Lamentations 5:13
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They took the young men to grind, and the children
fell under the wood. |
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Lamentations 5:14
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young
men from their musick. |
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Lamentations 5:15
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is
turned into mourning. |
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Lamentations 5:16
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The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto
us, that we have sinned! |
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Lamentations 5:17
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For this our heart is faint; for these things
our eyes are dim. |
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Lamentations 5:18
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,
the foxes walk upon it. |
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Lamentations 5:19
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne
from generation to generation. |
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Lamentations 5:20
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and
forsake us so long time? |
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Lamentations 5:21
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Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall
be turned; renew our days as of old. |
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Lamentations 5:22
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art
very wroth against us. |
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