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5:1  Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us; consider, and behold our reproach.
5:2  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
5:3  We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
5:4  We have paid money for water we drink; our wood is sold unto us.
5:5  Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.
5:6  We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be provided with bread.
5:7  Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.
5:8  Servants have ruled over us; there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
5:9  We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:10  Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
5:11  They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
5:12  Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honored.
5:13  They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
5:14  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
5:15  The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
5:16  The crown is fallen from our head. Woe unto us that we have sinned!
5:17  For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
5:18  Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
5:19  Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever, Thy throne from generation to generation.
5:20  Why dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long a time?
5:21  Turn Thou us unto Thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned! Renew our days as of old!—
5:22  But Thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.