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The Lamentations of Jeremias
THE PRAYER OF JEREMIAS THE PROPHET
Chapter 5
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Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. |
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Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. |
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We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows. |
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We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood. |
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We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us. |
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We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread. |
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. |
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Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand. |
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We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert. |
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Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine. |
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They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda. |
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The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients. |
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They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood. |
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The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers. |
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The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning. |
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The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned. |
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Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim. |
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For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it. |
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But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation. |
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Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? |
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Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning. |
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But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry with us. |
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