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5:1  Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
5:2  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
5:3  We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
5:4  We have drunk our water at a price; our wood is sold unto us.
5:5  Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
5:6  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
5:7  Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
5:8  Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
5:9  We got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
5:10  Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
5:11  They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.
5:12  Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored.
5:13  They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
5:14  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
5:15  The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.
5:16  The crown has fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
5:17  For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
5:18  Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
5:19  You, O LORD, remain forever; your throne from generation to generation.
5:20  Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?
5:21  Turn us back to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
5:22  But you have utterly rejected us; you are very angry against us.