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