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How alone sits the city that was full of people !
She has become like a widow ,
great among the nations ;
A noblewoman among the provinces has become a payer of tribute .
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She bitterly weeps in the night ,
and her tears are on her cheeks .
She has no comforter among all her lovers .
All her friends dealt deceit with her ;
they became enemies to her .
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Judah went captive from affliction ,
and from great slavery .
She dwells among the nations ;
She finds no rest .
All her pursuers have overtaken her between the straits .
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The roads of Zion are in mourning without any going to the appointed feasts .
All her gates are deserted ;
her priests sigh ,
her virgins are afflicted ;
and she is in bitterness .
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Her foes have become as chief ;
her haters are at ease .
For Jehovah has afflicted her for the multitude of her trespasses .
Her children have gone ,
captive before the foe .
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And from the daughter of Zion all her splendor has departed .
Her rulers have become like bucks ;
they find no pasture ;
and they have gone without strength before the pursuer .
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In the days of her affliction and her wandering ,
Jerusalem remembers all her desirable things from previous days ,
when her people fell into the hand of the foe ;
and there is no ally for her .
The foes saw her ;
they laughed at her annihilations .
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Jerusalem has grievously sinned ;
on account of this ,
she has been removed .
All the ones knowing her despise her ,
for they saw her nakedness .
Also ,
she groans and turns backward .
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Her uncleanness is in her skirts .
She did not remember her end and has gone down astoundingly .
She had no comforter .
O Jehovah ,
behold my affliction ,
for the enemy has magnified himself .
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The enemy has spread out his hand on all her desirable things .
Indeed ,
she has seen the nations enter into her holy place ,
whom You commanded that they not enter into Your congregation .
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All her people sigh from seeking bread .
They gave their desirable things for food to revive the soul .
See ,
O Jehovah ,
and look on me ,
for I have become vile .
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Is it nothing to you ,
all you who pass by ?
Behold ,
and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which is done to me ,
with which Jehovah has afflicted me in the day of His burning anger .
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From on high He has sent fire into my bones ,
and subdued it .
He spread a net for my feet ;
He has turned me back ;
He gave me desolation .
All the days I faint .
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The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand ,
they intertwine ,
they rise on my neck .
He caused my strength to falter .
The Lord gave me into their hands .
I am not able to rise up .
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The Lord has trampled all my mighty ones in my midst .
He called a gathering against me to crush my young men .
As a winepress ,
the Lord trod the virgin daughter of Judah .
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I weep for these ;
my eye ,
my eye runs down with water ,
because far from me is a comforter reviving my soul .
My sons are desolated because the enemy prevails .
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Zion spreads forth her hands ;
there is not one comforting to her ;
Jehovah has commanded concerning Jacob that his enemies should be all around him .
Jerusalem has become as an impure thing among them .
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Jehovah is righteous ,
for I rebelled against His mouth .
I beseech you ,
all peoples ,
hear and see my sorrow .
My virgins and my young men went into exile .
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I called for my lovers ;
they deceived me .
My priests and my elders expired in the city ,
while they sought food for them to bring back their life .
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Behold ,
O Jehovah ,
for I am distressed .
My inward parts ferment ;
my heart is overturned within me ;
for I have grievously rebelled .
On the outside the sword bereaves ;
in the house it is as death .
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They hear that I sigh ;
there is no comforter to me .
All my enemies have heard my evil ;
they rejoice that You have done it .
You will bring the day that You have called ,
and they shall be like me .
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Let all their evil come before You ;
and do to them as You have done to me for all my transgressions .
For my sighs are many ,
and my heart is faint .
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How the Lord has clouded over the daughter of Zion in His anger !
He cast the beauty of Israel down from the heavens to the earth ,
and did not remember His footstool in the day of His wrath .
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The Lord swallowed up all of Jacob '
s dwelling-places ,
and did not pity .
In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah .
He made them touch to the earth .
He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers .
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He cut off all the horn of Israel in hot anger .
He has turned back His right hand from the face of the haters ,
and He burned in Jacob as a flaming fire ;
it consumes all around .
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He trod His bow like an enemy ,
and set His right hand like a foe ;
and killed all who were desirable to the eye in the tent of the daughter of Zion .
He poured out His fury like fire .
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The Lord was like an enemy ;
He swallowed up Israel ;
He swallowed up all his palaces and destroyed his strongholds ;
and He increased mourning and weeping in the daughter of Judah .
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And He violated his booth like a garden and destroyed his meeting-places .
Jehovah made meeting-places and sabbaths forgotten in Zion ,
and He rejected king and priest in the fury of His anger .
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The Lord has cast off His altar ;
He rejected His holy place .
He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hater '
s hand .
They gave a noise in Jehovah '
s house ,
as a day of meeting .
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Jehovah willed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion ;
He has stretched out a line .
He has not withdrawn His hand from swallowing ;
and He made rampart and wall lament ;
they languish together .
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Her gates have sunk in the ground ;
He has dispersed and shattered her bars .
Her kings and her rulers are among the nations .
The law is not .
Also her prophets have not found a vision from Jehovah .
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They sit on the ground ;
the elders of Zion '
s daughters are silent .
They send up dust on their heads ,
they gird on sack cloths .
The virgins of Jerusalem let their heads hang to the ground .
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And my eyes are at an end with tears ,
my inward parts ferment ;
my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people ;
in the fainting of children and sucklings in the city '
s plazas .
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They say to their mothers ,
Where are grain and wine ?
In their fainting ,
they are like the wounded in the plazas of the city ,
in their pouring out their lives to their mothers '
bosom .
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What can I testify for you ?
To what will I compare you ,
O daughter of Jerusalem ?
To what shall I equate you ,
that I may comfort you ,
O virgin daughter of Zion ?
For your crushing is great like the sea !
Who can heal you ?
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Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you ;
and they have not revealed your iniquity ,
to turn back your captivity .
Yea ,
they visioned for you burdens of falsehood and seductions .
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All who pass by clap their hands at you .
They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem ,
saying ,
Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty ,
the joy of all the earth ?
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All your haters have opened their mouth against you ;
they hiss and gnash the teeth ;
they say ,
We have swallowed up .
Surely this is the day for which we waited ;
we have found ;
we have seen .
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Jehovah has done what He purposed ;
He fulfilled His word which He commanded from days of antiquity .
He has dashed and not pitied .
And He made the hater to rejoice over you ;
He raised the horn of your foes .
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Their heart cried to the Lord .
O wall of the daughter of Zion ,
let tears go out like a torrent by day and by night ;
do not give relief to yourself ;
let not the daughter of your eye rest .
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Rise up ,
cry out in the night at the head of the watches ;
pour out your heart like waters before the face of the Lord .
Lift up your hands to Him for the life of your children faint with hunger at the head of every open place .
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Behold ,
O Jehovah ,
and look !
To whom have you done this ?
Should women eat their fruit ,
children of tender care ?
Should priest and prophet be killed in the holy place of the Lord ?
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Young and old lie on the ground of the plazas .
My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword .
You have killed in the day of Your anger .
You have killed ,
You have not pitied .
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You have called my terrors all around ,
as in a day of appointment ;
and there was not an escaped one or a survivor in the day of the anger of Jehovah .
Those whom I have nursed and multiplied ,
my enemy has consumed .
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I ,
the man ,
have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath .
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He led me and made me go in darkness and not light .
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Surely He turned against me ;
He turns His hand all the day .
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He has wasted my flesh and my skin .
He has shattered my bones .
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He built against me and has put around me bitterness and hardship .
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He has made me live in dark places like the dead of old .
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He walled around me and I cannot go out ;
He has made heavy my bronze chain .
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Also ,
when I cry out and shout for help ,
He shuts out my prayer .
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He walled up my ways with cut stone ;
my paths are crooked .
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He was a bear lying in wait for me ,
a lion in secret places .
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He has deflected my ways and torn me to pieces ;
He made me desolate .
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He has trod His bow and set me up as a mark for the arrow .
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He caused the sons of His quiver to enter into my inward parts .
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I was a mockery to all my people ,
their song all the day .
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He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood .
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And He broke my teeth with gravel ;
He has covered me in the ashes .
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And You cast off my soul from peace ;
I have forgotten goodness .
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And I said ,
My strength and my hope are gone from Jehovah .
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Remember my affliction and my roaming ,
as wormwood and bitterness .
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My soul vividly remembers and bows down on me .
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I bring back this to my heart .
On account of this I hope .
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It is by the kindnesses of Jehovah that we are not consumed ,
for His mercies are not ended .
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They are new by mornings ;
great is Your faithfulness .
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Jehovah is my portion ,
says my soul .
On account of this I shall hope to Him .
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Jehovah is good to those waiting on Him ,
to the soul seeking Him .
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It is good that a man hopes for the salvation of Jehovah ,
even in silence .
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It is good for a man that he bear a yoke in his youth .
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He sits alone and is silent ,
for He laid it on him .
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He puts his mouth in the dust ,
if perhaps there is hope .
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He gives his cheek to Him who strikes him ;
he is filled with reproach .
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For the Lord will not cast off forever .
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For though He causes grief ,
He will have pity according to His many kindnesses .
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For He does not afflict from His heart ,
nor does He grieve the sons of man ,
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to crush all the prisoners of earth under His feet ,
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to turn aside the justice of a man before the face of the Most High ,
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to wrong a man in his cause .
This ,
the Lord does not see .
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Who is this speaking ,
and it happens when the Lord does not command it ?
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Both the evil and the good do not go out from the mouth of the Most High .
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What ?
Should mankind complain ,
living man because of his sins ?
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Let us search and examine our ways ,
and turn again to Jehovah .
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Let us lift up our heart and palms to God in Heaven .
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We have transgressed and rebelled ;
You ,
You have not forgiven .
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You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us ;
You have slain ;
You have not pitied .
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You have covered with a cloud for You ,
from any prayer passing through .
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You have made us sweepings and garbage in the midst of the peoples .
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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us .
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Dread and a pit is ours ,
devastation and ruin .
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Streams of water go out of my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people .
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My eye flows out and does not cease ,
from there not being any relaxing ,
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until Jehovah shall look down and see from Heaven .
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My eye deals severely with my soul ,
from all the daughters of my city .
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My haters have hunted me like a bird without cause .
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They have cut off my life in the pit ,
and they threw a stone at me .
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Waters flowed over on my head ;
I said ,
I am cut off .
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I called on Your name ,
O Jehovah ,
from the lowest pit .
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You have heard my voice ;
do not hide Your ear at my relief ,
at my cry for help .
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You came near in the day I called You ;
you said ,
Do not fear !
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O Lord ,
You contended for the causes of my soul ;
You redeemed my life .
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You have seen my wrong ,
O Jehovah ;
judge my cause .
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You have seen all their vengeance ,
all their plots against me .
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You have heard their reproach ,
O Jehovah ,
all their plots against me ,
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the lips of those rising up against me ,
and their scheming against me all the day .
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Look at their sitting and their rising up .
I am their song .
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You will give back a recompense to them ,
O Jehovah ,
according to the work of their hands .
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You will give them an insolent heart as Your curse to them .
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Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of Jehovah .
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How the gold dims ,
the good gold is changed !
The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street .
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The precious sons of Zion are weighed against pure gold .
How they are counted as earthen vessels ,
the work of a potter '
s hand !
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Even the jackals draw out the breast ;
they suckle their young .
But the daughter of my people is cruel ,
like the ostriches in the wilderness .
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The tongue of the nursling cleaves to his palate in thirst .
The young children ask bread ,
but there is no breaking for them .
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Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets ;
those reared on scarlet embrace dunghills .
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And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is heaped more than the sin of Sodom ,
which was overthrown as in a moment ,
and no hands were spun on her .
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Her Nazarites were purer than snow ,
whiter than milk ;
they were redder of bone than corals ;
their cuttings as azure-blue ,
as lapis lazuli .
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Their appearance is darker than soot ;
they are not recognized in the streets .
Their skin has shriveled on their bones ;
it is dried up ,
it has become like wood .
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Better are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger ,
those who flow away ,
pierced because the produce of my fields failed .
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The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children ;
they became food to them in the ruin of the daughter of my people .
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Jehovah has fulfilled His fury ;
He has poured out His fierce anger and has kindled a fire in Zion ;
and it has devoured its foundations .
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The kings of the earth and all the world '
s inhabitants would not have believed that the foe and the hater would go into the gates of Jerusalem .
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Because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests ,
shedding the blood of the righteous in her midst ,
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they reeled blind in the streets .
They are defiled with blood ,
so that not any are able to touch their garments .
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They cried out to them ,
Depart !
Unclean !
Depart ,
depart !
Touch not !
Indeed they fled and reeled .
They said among the nations ,
They will not continue to live there .
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The face of Jehovah has shared them out ;
He will not continue to look on them .
They did not lift up the face of the priests ,
they did not favor the elders .
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While we are ,
our eyes fail for our vain help .
In our watching ,
we have watched for a nation ;
it does not save .
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They hunted our steps from going in our open places .
Our end came near ,
our days were fulfilled ,
for our end had come .
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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens ;
they hotly pursued us on the mountains ;
they lay in wait for us in the wilderness .
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The breath of our nostrils ,
the anointed of Jehovah ,
was captured in their pits ;
of whom we said ,
In his shadow we will live among the nations .
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Rejoice and be glad ,
O daughter of Edom ,
living in the land of Uz ,
The cup also shall pass through to you ;
you shall be drunken and stripped naked .
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Your perversity is complete ,
daughter of Zion ;
He will not continue to exile you .
He will visit your perversity ,
daughter of Edom ;
He will expose your sins .
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O Jehovah ,
remember what has been to us ;
look upon and see our shame .
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Our inheritance has been turned to aliens ,
our houses to foreigners .
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We are orphans .
There is no father ;
our mothers are like widows .
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We have drunk our water for silver ;
our wood comes for a price .
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We are pursued ;
we grow weary ;
rest is not given to us .
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians ,
to the Assyrian ,
in order to be satisfied with bread .
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Our fathers have sinned ,
and we are not ;
we have borne their iniquities .
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Slaves rule over us ;
there is no rescuer from their hand .
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We bring in our bread with our souls ,
from the face of the sword of the wilderness .
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Our skin is burned black like an oven ,
because of the fever heat of famine .
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They raped the women in Zion ,
virgins in the cities of Judah .
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Rulers were hanged by their hands ;
the faces of the elders were not honored .
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They lifted the young men to the hand mill ,
and the youths stumbled at the wood .
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The elders have ceased from the gate ,
the young men from their music .
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The joy of our heart has ceased ;
our dance has turned to mourning .
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The crown has fallen from our head .
Woe now to us ,
for we have sinned !
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For this our heart is faint ;
our eyes are dim for these things .
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Zion is laid waste on the mountain ;
foxes walk about on it .
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O Jehovah ,
You remain forever ;
Your throne to generation and generation .
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Why do You forget us forever ,
forsake us the length of days ?
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Return us to You ,
O Jehovah ,
and we shall return .
Renew our days as of old ,
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unless You have utterly rejected us ;
You are exceedingly angry against us .