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[1] REMEMBER, O LORD, what has come upon us; behold, and see our reproach.
[2] Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
[3] We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
[4] We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
[5] Our necks are under yokes; we labor, and have no rest.
[6] The Egyptians gave a helping hand, and we looked to the Assyrians to provide bread.
[7] Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.
[8] Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands.
[9] We get our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
[10] Our skin has shriveled as though burned in an oven because of the suffering of famine.
[11] Women are ravished in Zion, and virgins in the cities of Judah.
[12] Princes are hanged up by their hands; the faces of the elders are not honored.
[13] The young men grind the mill, and the youths stumble under loads of wood.
[14] The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their joy.
[15] The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
[16] The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned
[17] For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
[18] Because mount Zion is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
[19] But thou, O LORD, dost endure for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
[20] Therefore do not forget us for ever, nor forsake us for so long a time.
[21] Bring us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as of old.
[22] For thou hast utterly rejected us; thou hast been exceedingly angry against us.
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