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Lamentations 5

A Prayer for Mercy

1

Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; Look, and see our  areproach!

2

Our inheritance has been turned over to  astrangers, Our  bhouses to aliens.

3

We have become orphans  awithout a father, Our mothers are like widows.

4

 1We have to pay for our drinking  awater, Our wood comes to us at a price.

5

 1Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is  ano rest for us.

6

We have  1submitted to  aEgypt and Assyria  2to get enough bread.

7

Our  afathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have borne their iniquities.

8

 aSlaves rule over us; There is  bno one to deliver us from their hand.

9

We get our bread  1at the  arisk of our lives  2Because of the sword in the wilderness.

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Our skin has become as  ahot as an oven, Because of  1the burning heat of famine.

11

They ravished the  awomen in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

12

Princes were hung by their hands;  1 aElders were not respected.

13

Young men  1 aworked at the grinding mill, And youths  bstumbled under loads of wood.

14

Elders  1are gone from the gate, Young men from their  amusic.

15

The joy of our hearts has  aceased; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

16

The  acrown has fallen from our head;  bWoe to us, for we have sinned!

17

Because of this our  aheart is faint, Because of these things our  beyes are dim;

18

Because of  aMount Zion which lies desolate,  bFoxes prowl in it.

19

 aYou, O LORD,  1rule forever; Your  bthrone is from generation to generation.

20

Why do You  aforget us forever? Why do You forsake us  1so long?

21

 aRestore us to You, O LORD, that we may be restored; Renew  bour days as of old,

22

Unless  aYou have utterly rejected us And are exceedingly  bangry with us.



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