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CHAPTER 5

1
Remember,
O LORD,
what
has happened to us.
Look
and see
our disgrace!
2
Our inheritance
has been turned over
to strangers,
our houses
to foreigners.
3
We have become
fatherless
orphans;
our mothers
are widows.
4
We must buy
the water
we drink;
our wood
comes
at a price.
5
We are closely
pursued;
we are weary
and find no
rest.
6
We submitted
to Egypt
and Assyria,
to get enough
food.
7
Our fathers
sinned
and are no more,
but we
bear
their punishment.
8
Slaves
rule over us;
there is no one
to deliver us
from their hands.
9
We get
our bread
at the risk of our lives
because of
the sword
in the wilderness.
10
Our skin
is as hot
as an oven
because of
the burning
of famine.
11
Women
have been ravished
in Zion,
virgins
in the cities
of Judah.
12
Princes
have been hung up
by their hands;
elders
receive no
respect.
13
Young men
toil
at millstones;
boys
stagger
under loads of wood.
14
The elders
have left
the city gate;
the young men
have stopped their music.
15
Joy
has left
our hearts;
our dancing
has turned
to mourning.
16
The crown
has fallen
from our head.
Woe to us,
for
we have sinned!
17
Because of
this,
our hearts
are
faint;
because of
these,
our eyes
grow dim:
18
because of
Mount
Zion,
which lies desolate,
haunted
by the jackals.
19
You,
O LORD,
reign
forever;
Your throne
endures from generation
to generation.
20
Why
have You forgotten us
forever?
Why have You forsaken us
for so long?
21
Restore
us to Yourself,
O LORD,
so we may return;
renew
our days
as of old,
22
unless
You have utterly rejected us
and remain angry
with us
beyond measure.
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