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Lamentations 5:1
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Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
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Lamentations 5:2
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Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
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Lamentations 5:3
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Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
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Lamentations 5:4
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Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
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Lamentations 5:5
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For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
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Lamentations 5:6
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[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
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Lamentations 5:7
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Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
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Lamentations 5:8
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Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
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Lamentations 5:9
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With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Lamentations 5:10
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Our skin as an oven hath been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
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Lamentations 5:11
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Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
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Lamentations 5:12
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Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.
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Lamentations 5:13
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Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
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Lamentations 5:14
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The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
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Lamentations 5:15
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Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
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Lamentations 5:16
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Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Wo [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
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Lamentations 5:17
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For this hath our heart been sick, For these have our eyes been dim.
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Lamentations 5:18
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For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
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Lamentations 5:19
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Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.
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Lamentations 5:20
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Why for ever dost Thou forget us? Thou forsakest us for length of days!
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Lamentations 5:21
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Turn us back, O Jehovah, unto Thee, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
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Lamentations 5:22
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For hast Thou utterly rejected us? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly?
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