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5:1  Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; look, and behold our reproach.
5:2  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
5:3  We are orphans without father; our mothers are as widows.
5:4  We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5:5  Our necks are under persecution; we are become tired 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 dead; and we have borne their chastisements.
5:8  Slaves have ruled over us: there was no one to deliver us out of their hand.
5:9  We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:10  Our skin became black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
5:11  They ravished the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
5:12  Princes were hanged up by their hand; the countenance of the elders was not honoured.
5:13  They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
5:14  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
5:15  The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
5:16  The crown is fallen from our head; woe now unto us, for we have sinned!
5:17  For this our heart is saddened; for these things our eyes are become dim.
5:18  Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
5:19  Thou, O LORD, shall remain for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
5:20  Why should thou forget us for ever and forsake us for such a long time?
5:21  Turn us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as at the beginning.
5:22  For in stepping back thou hast rejected us; thou hast become very angry against us.