Lamentations 5:1-22
A Prayer for Restoration

1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

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3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

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4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

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5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.

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6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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8 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.

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9 We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

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10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.

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12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

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13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

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14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

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

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16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.

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18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

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19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

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20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?

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21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

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22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

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