| 章 |
| 5:1 |
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
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| 5:2 |
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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| 5:3 |
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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| 5:4 |
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
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| 5:5 |
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
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| 5:6 |
We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
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| 5:7 |
Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
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| 5:8 |
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
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| 5:9 |
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
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| 5:10 |
Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.
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| 5:11 |
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
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| 5:12 |
Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
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| 5:13 |
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
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| 5:14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
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| 5:15 |
The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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| 5:16 |
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
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| 5:17 |
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
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| 5:18 |
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
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| 5:19 |
Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
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| 5:20 |
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?
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| 5:21 |
Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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| 5:22 |
Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?
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