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5:1Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us; / Look and see our reproach. Compare
5:2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, / Our houses to foreigners. Compare
5:3We are orphans without father; / Our mothers are like widows. Compare
5:4We have drunk our water for money; / Our wood comes to us at a price. Compare
5:5On our necks are our pursuers; / We are weary; we have no rest. Compare
5:6We have given our hand to Egypt / And to Assyria, so as to be satisfied with bread. Compare
5:7Our fathers sinned and they are not, / And we ourselves bear their iniquities. Compare
5:8Slaves rule over us; / There is no one to deliver us from their hand. Compare
5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives / Because of the sword from the wilderness. Compare
5:10Our skin is black like an oven / Because of the burning heat of famine. Compare
5:11They have ravished the women in Zion, / The virgins in the cities of Judah. Compare
5:12Princes were hanged by them. / The faces of the elders were not honored. Compare
5:13The young men bore the mill, / And the young boys stumbled under the wood. Compare
5:14The old men have ceased from the gate, / The young men from their music. Compare
5:15The joy of our heart has ceased; / Our dance has been turned into mourning. Compare
5:16The crown has fallen from our head. / Woe to us! For we have sinned. Compare
5:17Because of this our heart is faint; / Because of these things our eyes are dim; Compare
5:18Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate - / Foxes rove in it. Compare
5:19You, O Jehovah, abide forever; / Your throne is from generation to generation. Compare
5:20Why do You forget us forever / And forsake us for so long a time? Compare
5:21Turn us back to You, O Jehovah, and we will be turned; / Renew our days as before. Compare
5:22Or have You utterly rejected us? / Are You exceedingly angry with us? Compare