Lamentations 5:1-3

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A Plea for Mercy

5 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
    behold, and see our disgrace!
²Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
    our homes to aliens.
³We have become orphans, fatherless;
    our mothers are like widows.

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