engDRA: Lamentations 5

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 [1] Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.  [2] Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.  [3] We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.  [4] We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.  [5] We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.  [6] We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.  [7] Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.  [8] Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.  [9] We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.  [10] Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.  [11] They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.  [12] The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.  [13] They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.  [14] The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.  [15] The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.  [16] The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.  [17] Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,  [18] For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.  [19] But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.  [20] Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?  [21] Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.  [22] But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.

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