A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.
5:1 ¶
Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach. |
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5:1 ¶
Remember,°°
O Yahweh,°
what°
is come°
upon us: consider,°°
and behold°°°
our reproach.° |
5:2
Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers: |
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5:2
Our inheritance°
is turned°°
to strangers,°°
our houses°
to aliens.° |
5:3
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows. |
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5:3
We are°
orphans°
and fatherless,°°
our mothers°
[are] as widows.° |
5:4
We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck: |
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5:4
We have drunken°°
our water°
for money;°
our wood°
is sold°°°
unto us. |
5:5
we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest. |
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5:5
Our necks°
[are] under°
persecution:°°
we labour,°°
[and] have no rest.°°° |
5:6
Mizraim{gr.Egypt} gave the hand [to us], Asshur{gr.Assur} to their own satisfaction. |
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5:6
We have given°°
the hand°
[to] the Egyptians,°
[and to] the Assyrians,°
to be satisfied°°
with bread.° |
5:7
Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities. |
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5:7
Our fathers°
have sinned,°°
[and are] not;°
and we°
have borne°°
their iniquities.° |
5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand. |
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5:8
Servants°
have ruled°°
over°
us: [there is] none°
that doth deliver°°
[us] out of their hand.°° |
5:9
We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. |
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5:9
We gat°°
our bread°
with [the peril of] our lives°
because°
of°°
the sword°
of the wilderness.° |
5:10
Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine. |
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5:10
Our skin°
was black°°
like an oven°
because°
of°°
the terrible°
famine.° |
5:11
They humbled the women in Zion{gr.Sion}, the virgins in the cities of Judah{gr.Juda}. |
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5:11
They ravished°°
the women°
in Zion,°
[and] the maids°
in the cities°
of Judah.° |
5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured. |
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5:12
Princes°
are hanged up°°
by their hand:°
the faces°
of elders°
were not°
honoured.°° |
5:13
The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood. |
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5:13
They took°°
the young men°
to grind,°
and the children°
fell°°
under the wood.° |
5:14
And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music. |
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5:14
The elders°
have ceased°°
from the gate,°°
the young men°
from their musick.°° |
5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
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5:15
The joy°
of our heart°
is ceased;°°
our dance°
is turned°°
into mourning.° |
5:16
The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned. |
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5:16
The crown°
is fallen°°
[from] our head:°
woe°
unto us, that°
we have sinned!°° |
5:17
For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened. |
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5:17
For°
this°
our heart°
is°
faint;°
for°
these°
[things] our eyes°
are dim.°° |
5:18
Over the mountain of Zion{gr.Sion}, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein. |
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5:18
Because of°
the mountain°
of Zion,°
which°
is desolate,°°
the foxes°
walk°°
upon it. |
5:19
But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation. |
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5:19
Thou,°
O Yahweh,°
remainest°°
for ever;°
thy throne°
from generation°
to generation.° |
5:20
Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time? |
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5:20
Wherefore°
dost thou forget°°
us for ever,°
[and] forsake°°
us so long°
time?° |
5:21
Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before. |
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5:21
Turn°°
thou us unto°
thee, O Yahweh,°
and we shall be turned;°°
renew°°
our days°
as of old.° |
5:22
For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us. |
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5:22
But°°
thou hast utterly°°
rejected°°
us; thou art very°
wroth°°°°
against°
us. |