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Version 0.35.76, 26 August 2024

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Lamentations Chapter 5

1Remember, O Lord,

What has come upon us.

Look and see our reproach.

2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers

– Our houses to foreigners.

3We have become orphans;

We have no father.

Our mothers are like widows.

4We have drunk our water against payment;

Our wood comes at a price.

5We are pursued at our necks,

We are weary;

We are not given rest.

6We offered the hand to Egypt;

We gave Assyria bread with which to be satiated.

7Our fathers have sinned;

They are not here.

We are suffering for their iniquities.

8Servants have ruled over us;

No-one breaks away from their grip.

9We fetch our bread at the risk of our lives

Because of the sword in the desert.

10Our skin is as black as an oven

Because of the scorching famine.

11They raped the women in Zion

And the virgins of the cities of Judah.

12Princes were hanged at their behest;

The standing of the elderly was not respected.

13They took young men to do grinding,

And youths staggered with wood.

14Old men cease to be at the gate,

And young men playing music.

15The joy of our heart has ceased;

Our dancing has turned into mourning.

16The crown on our head has fallen off.

Oh woe to us,

For we have sinned!

17For this reason our heart has become sick;

On these grounds our eyes have become dark.

18On Mount Zion,

Which is desolate,

Foxes roam.

19You, O Lord, remain age-abidingly;

Your throne is from generation to generation.

20Why should you forget us forever

– Abandon us for the length of days?

21Restore us, O Lord, to yourself,

And we will return.

Renew our days

As of old.

22For you have utterly rejected us,

You have been angry with us

In great measure.

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