Lamentations 5
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Lamentations

A Prayer for Restoration

1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!+ 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.+ 3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.+ 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.+ 5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.+ 6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.+ 7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.+ 8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.+ 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.+ 10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.+ 11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.+ 12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.+ 13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.+ 14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.+ 15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.+ 16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!+ 17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—+ 18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.+ 19You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.+ 20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?+ 21Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,+ 22unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.+

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