# Lamentations 5 
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1. Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace! 
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2. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. 
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3. We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. 
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4. We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. 
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5. Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest. 
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6. We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. 
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7. Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. 
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8. Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. 
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9. We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. 
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10. Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. 
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11. Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. 
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12. Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. 
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13. Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood. 
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14. The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music. 
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15. The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. 
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16. The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 
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17. For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, 
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18. for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. 
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19. But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations. 
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20. Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? 
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21. Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old— 
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22. unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us. 

(ESV)