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[1] Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
[2] Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliens.
[3] We are fatherless, even without father, and our mothers are as widows.
[4] We have drunk our water for money, and our wood is sold unto us.
[5] Our necks are under persecution: we are weary, and have no rest.
[6] We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
[7] Our fathers have sinned, and are not, and we have born their iniquities.
[8] Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands.
[9] We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
[10] Our skin was black like as an oven because of the terrible famine.
[11] They defiled the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
[12] The princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of the elders were not had in honor.
[13] They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
[14] The elders have ceased from the gate and the young men from their songs.
[15] The joy of our heart is gone, our dance is turned into mourning.
[16] The crown of our head is fallen: woe now unto us, that we have sinned.
[17] Therefore our heart is heavy for these things, our eyes are dim,
[18] Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate: the foxes run upon it.
[19] But thou, O Lord, remainest forever: thy throne is from generation to generation.
[20] Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time?
[21] Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned: renew our days as of old.
[22] But thou hast utterly rejected us: thou art exceedingly angry against us.
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