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Lamentations 5

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Zion's Prayer for Mercy

 
Remember, The LORD, what has come on us.Look, and see our reproach. +
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our houses to aliens. +
We are orphans and fatherless.Our mothers are as widows. +
We have drunken our water for money.Our wood is sold to us. +
Our pursuers are on our necks.We are weary, and have no rest. +
We have given our hands to the Egyptians,and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. +
Our fathers sinned, and are no more.We have borne their iniquities. +
Servants rule over us.There is no one to deliver us out of their hand. +
We get our bread at the peril of our lives,because of the sword of the wilderness. +
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Our skin is black like an oven,because of the burning heat of famine. +
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They ravished the women in Zion,the virgins in the cities of Judah. +
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Princes were hanged up by their hands.The faces of elders were not honored. +
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The young men carry millstones.The children stumbled under loads of wood. +
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The elders have ceased from the gate,and the young men from their music. +
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The joy of our heart has ceased.Our dance is turned into mourning.
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The crown has fallen from our head.Woe to us, for we have sinned! +
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For this our heart is faint.For these things our eyes are dim. +
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For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.The foxes walk on it. +
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You, The LORD, remain forever.Your throne is from generation to generation. +
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Why do you forget us forever,and forsake us for so long a time? +
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Turn us to yourself, The LORD, and we will be turned.Renew our days as of old. +
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But you have utterly rejected us.You are very angry against us.


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