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