“O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

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(A)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. O Lord, (B)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

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42 (A)We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.

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18 “The Lord is (A)righteous,
For I (B)rebelled against His [a]commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:18 Lit. mouth

In the days of her affliction and roaming,
Jerusalem (A)remembers all her pleasant things
That she had in the days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
With no one to help her,
The adversaries saw her
And mocked at her [a]downfall.

(B)Jerusalem has sinned gravely,
Therefore she has become [b]vile.
All who honored her despise her
Because (C)they have seen her nakedness;
Yes, she sighs and turns away.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:7 Vg. Sabbaths
  2. Lamentations 1:8 LXX, Vg. moved or removed

20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness
And the iniquity of our (A)fathers,
For (B)we have sinned against You.

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16 (A)The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!

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