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A prayer[a]

Lord, please remember the trouble that has happened to us.
Look at us, because we are ashamed.
Strangers have taken the land that our ancestors gave to us.
Foreign people live in our homes.
We are children whose fathers have died.
Our mothers no longer have husbands.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:1 In this chapter, Jerusalem's people are praying to God.

Remember, Lord, what has happened to us;
    look, and see our disgrace.(A)
Our inheritance(B) has been turned over to strangers,(C)
    our homes(D) to foreigners.(E)
We have become fatherless,
    our mothers are widows.(F)

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