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Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. “O Lord, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”
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All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O Lord, and see, for I am despised.”
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“Look, O Lord, for I am in distress; my stomach churns; my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.
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What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you?
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Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!
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Look, O Lord, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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“I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit;
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“You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.
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You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; judge my cause.
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“You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.
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“You will repay them, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
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You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O Lord.”
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Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.
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The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.
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Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!
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But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.
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Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old—