Lamentations:5

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* Remember , O Lord , what hath occurred to us , look down , and behold our disgrace . * Our inheritance is turned over to strangers , our houses to aliens . * Orphans are we become , and without a father , our mothers are like widows . * Our water have we drunk for money : our wood cometh to us for a purchase price . * Up to our necks are we pursued : we are fatigued , and no rest is allowed us . * To Egypt do we stretch out our hand , to Asshur , to be satisfied with bread . * Our fathers have sinned , and are no more ; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities . * Servants rule over us : no one delivereth us out of their hand . * At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread , because of the sword of the wilderness . * Our skin gloweth like an oven , because of the heat of famine . * Women have they ravished in Zion , virgins , in the cities of Judah . * Princes were hanged up by their hand : the faces of elders were not honored . * Young men they bore to the mill , and boys stumbled under the wood . * The elders have ceased from the gate , young men , from their singing . * Ceased hath the joy of our heart : our dance is changed into mourning . * Fallen is the crown of our head : woe to us , for we have sinned . * Because of this is our heart made sick ; for these things are our eyes dimmed ; * Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted , foxes walk about on it . * O thou , Lord , wilt truly abide for ever , thy throne existeth throughout all generations . * Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever ! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time ? * Cause us to return , O Lord , unto thee , and we will return : renew our days as of old . * For wouldst thou entirely reject us , be wroth with us to the uttermost ?

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