(KJV) Lamentations 5¹

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⥃A Prayer for Restoration

[1] Remember², O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold³ our reproach. [2] Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.⁴ [3] We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.⁵ [4] We have⁶ drunken our water for money; our wood is sold⁷ unto us. [5] Our necks [are] under persecution⁸: we labour⁹, [and] have no rest. [6] We have given¹⁰ the hand [to] the Egyptians¹¹, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. [7] Our fathers¹² have sinned, [and are¹³] not; and we have borne their iniquities. [8] Servants¹⁴ have ruled over us: [there¹⁵ is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand. [9] We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.¹⁶ [10] Our skin¹⁷ was black like an oven because of the terrible famine¹⁸. [11] They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.¹⁹ [12] Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.²⁰ [13] They took the young²¹ men to grind, and the children fell²² under the wood. [14] The elders²³ have ceased from the gate, the young²⁴ men from their musick. [15] The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance²⁵ is turned into mourning. [16] The crown²⁶ is fallen [from] our head²⁷: woe²⁸ unto us, that we have sinned! [17] For this our heart²⁹ is faint; for these [things] our eyes³⁰ are dim. [18] Because of the³¹ mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes³² walk upon it. [19] Thou, O Lord, remainest³³ for ever; thy throne³⁴ from generation to generation. [20] Wherefore dost³⁵ thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time³⁶? [21] Turn³⁷ thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew³⁸ our days as of old. [22] But thou hast utterly rejected us³⁹; thou art very wroth against us.