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5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us;behold, and see our disgrace! 5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens. 5:3 We have become orphans, fatherless;our mothers are like widows. 5:4 We must pay for the water we drink, the wood we get must be bought. 5:5 With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven;we are weary, we are given no rest. 5:6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. 5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more;and we bear their iniquities. 5:8 Slaves rule over us;there is none to deliver us from their hand. 5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. 5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. 5:11 Women are ravished in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah. 5:12 Princes are hung up by their hands;no respect is shown to the elders. 5:13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill;and boys stagger under loads of wood. 5:14 The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music. 5:15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;our dancing has been turned to mourning. 5:16 The crown has fallen from our head;woe to us, for we have sinned! 5:17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, 5:18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;jackals prowl over it. 5:19 But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever;thy throne endures to all generations. 5:20 Why dost thou forget us for ever, why dost thou so long forsake us? 5:21 Restore us to thyself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old! 5:22 Or hast thou utterly rejected us? Art thou exceedingly angry with us?