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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 strangers, our houses to aliens.
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[3]
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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[4]
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. is...: Heb. cometh for price
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[5]
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted
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[6]
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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[7]
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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[8]
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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[9]
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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[10]
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms
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[11]
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They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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[12]
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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[13]
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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[14]
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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[15]
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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[16]
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The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! The...: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen
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[17]
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For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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[18]
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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[19]
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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[20]
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? so...: Heb. for length of days?
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[21]
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Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. But...: or, For wilt thou utterly reject us?
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