Lamentations:5

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* Remember , O LORD , what is come upon us : (note :)This prayer as is thought , was made when some of the people were carried away captive , others such as the poorest remained , and some went into Egypt and other places for comfort , though it seems that the prophet foreseeing their miseries to come , thus prayed .(:note ) consider , and behold our reproach . * Our inheritance is turned to the strangers , our houses to the aliants . * We are fatherles , euen without father , and our mothers are as widowes . * We have drank our (note :)Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage .(:note ) water for money ; our wood is sold to us . * Our neckes are vnder persecution : we are wearie , and haue no rest . * We have given the (note :)We are joined in league and amity with them , or have submitted ourselves to them .(:note ) hand [to ] the Egyptians , [and to ] the Assyrians , to be satisfied with bread . * Our fathers have sinned , [and are ] not ; and we have borne (note :)As our fathers have been punished for their sins : so we that are guilty of the same sins are punished .(:note ) their iniquities . * Seruants haue ruled ouer vs , none would deliuer vs out of their hands . * We procured our bread with [the peril of ] our lives because of the sword (note :)Because of the enemy that came from the wilderness and would not suffer us to go and seek our necessary food .(:note ) of the wilderness . * Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine . * They defiled the women in Zion , and the maydes in the cities of Iudah . * Princes were hung up by (note :)That is , by the enemies hand .(:note ) their hand : the faces of elders were not honoured . * They took the young men to grind , and the children fell under (note :)Their slavery was so great , that they were not able to abide it .(:note ) the wood . * The elders have ceased from the (note :)There were no more laws nor form of commonwealth .(:note ) gate , the young men from their music . * The ioy of our heart is gone , our daunce is turned into mourning . * The crowne of our head is fallen : wo nowe vnto vs , that we haue sinned . * For this our heart is faint ; for these [things ] our (note :)With weeping .(:note ) eyes are dim . * Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate : the foxes runne vpon it . * Thou , O LORD , remainest for (note :)And therefore your covenant and mercies can never fail .(:note ) ever ; thy throne from generation to generation . * Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer , and forsake vs so long time ? * * But thou hast vtterly reiected vs : thou art exceedingly angry against vs .

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