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Lam.|5:1|-||a|Remember, O Jehovah, what has come upon us;Look and see our reproach.
Lam.|5:2|-|Our |a|inheritance has been turned over to strangers,Our houses to foreigners.
Lam.|5:3|-|We are orphans without father;Our mothers are like widows.
Lam.|5:4|-|We have drunk our water for money;Our wood comes to us at a price.
Lam.|5:5|-|On our necks are our pursuers;We are weary; we have no rest.
Lam.|5:6|-|We have given our hand to |a|EgyptAnd to Assyria, so as to be satisfied with bread.
Lam.|5:7|-|Our fathers sinned and they |a|are not,And we ourselves bear their iniquities.
Lam.|5:8|-|Slaves rule over us;There is no one to deliver us from their hand.
Lam.|5:9|-|We get our bread at the risk of our livesBecause of the sword from the wilderness.
Lam.|5:10|-|Our skin is |a|black like an ovenBecause of the burning heat of famine.
Lam.|5:11|-|They have ravished the women in Zion,The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lam.|5:12|-|Princes were hanged by them.The faces of the elders were not honored.
Lam.|5:13|-|The young men bore the mill,And the young boys stumbled under the wood.
Lam.|5:14|-|The old men have ceased from the gate,The young men from their music.
Lam.|5:15|-|The joy of our heart has ceased;Our dance has been turned into mourning.
Lam.|5:16|-|The crown has fallen from our head.Woe to us! For we have sinned.
Lam.|5:17|-|Because of this our heart is faint;Because of these things our eyes are dim;
Lam.|5:18|-|Because of Mount |a|Zion, which is desolate—Foxes rove in it.
Lam.|5:19|-||a|You, O Jehovah, |1|abide forever;Your |b|throne is from generation to generation.
Lam.|5:20|-||1|Why do You forget us foreverAnd forsake us for so long a time?
Lam.|5:21|-||1a|Turn us back to You, O Jehovah, and we will be turned;Renew our days as before.
Lam.|5:22|-|Or have You |1|utterly rejected us?Are You |1|exceedingly angry with us?
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