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A pun encourages daughter Zion that she will no longer be exiled or “uncovered,” but the same idiom condemns daughter Edom, for she will be “uncovered.”

Remember, Eternal One; don’t forget what happened.
    Just look at how we are demeaned, disgraced.
All that You gave to us has been handed over to strangers.
    Even our houses foreigners have taken for their own.
Abandoned too early and on our own, we are like fatherless children;
    and our mothers, now widows, have nothing either.

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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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