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| 1LORD, remember what has happened to us. See how we have been disgraced! | 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. | 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 3We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed. | 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 4We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive. | 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 5Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest. | 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive. | 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved! | 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 8Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us. | 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside. | 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 10The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven. | 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 11Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah. | 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 12Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs, and our elders are treated with contempt. | 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 13Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. | 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 14The elders no longer sit in the city gates; the young men no longer dance and sing. | 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning. | 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 16The garlands have fallen from our heads. Weep for us because we have sinned. | 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 17Our hearts are sick and weary, and our eyes grow dim with tears. | 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 18For Jerusalem is empty and desolate, a place haunted by jackals. | 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 19But LORD, you remain the same forever! Your throne continues from generation to generation. | 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 20Why do you continue to forget us? Why have you abandoned us for so long? | 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 21Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had! | 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 22Or have you utterly rejected us? Are you angry with us still? | 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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