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Lamentations 5:1
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Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
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Lamentations 5:2
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Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
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Lamentations 5:3
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We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
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Lamentations 5:4
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We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
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Lamentations 5:5
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Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
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Lamentations 5:6
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Lamentations 5:7
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Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
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Lamentations 5:8
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Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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Lamentations 5:9
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We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Lamentations 5:10
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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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Lamentations 5:11
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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
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Lamentations 5:12
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Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
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Lamentations 5:13
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The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
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Lamentations 5:14
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The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
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Lamentations 5:15
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The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
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Lamentations 5:16
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The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
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Lamentations 5:17
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For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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Lamentations 5:18
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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
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Lamentations 5:19
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Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.
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Lamentations 5:20
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
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Lamentations 5:21
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Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.
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Lamentations 5:22
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.
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