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Remember , Yahweh , what has come on us : Look , and see our reproach .
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers , Our houses to aliens .
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We are orphans and fatherless ; Our mothers are as widows.
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We have drunken our water for money ; Our wood is sold to us .
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Our pursuers are on our necks : We are weary , and have no rest.
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians , To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread .
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Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities .
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Servants rule over us : There is none to deliver us out of their hand .
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We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness .
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Our skin is black like an oven , Because of the burning heat of famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah .
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Princes were hanged up by their hand : The faces of elders were not honored.
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The young men bare the mill ; The children stumbled under the wood .
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The elders have ceased from the gate , The young men from their music.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
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The crown is fallen from our head : Woe to us ! for we have sinned.
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For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
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You, Yahweh , remain forever ; Your throne is from generation to generation .
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Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
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Turn us to yourself, Yahweh , and we shall be turned . Renew our days as of old.
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But you have utterly rejected us ; You are very angry against us .