Lamentations 5:1-9
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A Plea for Mercy
5 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
look, and see our disgrace!(A)
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to aliens.(B)
3 We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
4 We must pay for the water we drink;
the wood we get must be bought.
5 With a yoke[a] on our necks we are hard driven;
we are weary; we are given no rest.(C)
6 We have made a pact with[b] Egypt and Assyria
to get enough bread.(D)
7 Our ancestors sinned; they are no more,
and we bear their iniquities.(E)
8 Slaves rule over us;
there is no one to deliver us from their hand.(F)
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
Lamentations 5:15-18
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15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.(A)
16 The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Because of this our hearts are sick;
because of these things our eyes have grown dim:(B)
18 because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate;
jackals prowl over it.
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