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Lamentations 5

A Prayer for Restoration

¹Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!

²Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.

³We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.

⁴We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price.

⁵They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.

⁶We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities.

⁸Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.

⁹We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness.

¹⁰Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah.

¹²Princes were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

¹³Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood.

¹⁴The elders have ceased gathering at the gate, And the young men from their music.

¹⁵The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning.

¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim;

¹⁸Because of Mount Zion which is desolate, With foxes walking about on it.

¹⁹You, O Lord, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.

²⁰Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?

²¹Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be restored; Renew our days as of old,

²²Unless You have utterly rejected us, And are very angry with us!

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