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1Remember, O Lord , what has befallen us;[#Ps. 89:50]
look, and see our disgrace!
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,[#Ps. 79:1]
our homes to foreigners.
3We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
4We must pay for the water we drink;
the wood we get must be bought.
5Our pursuers are at our necks;[#Josh. 10:24]
we are weary; we are given no rest.
6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,[#Hos. 12:1; #Hos. 12:1]
to get bread enough.
7Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
and we bear their iniquities.
8Slaves rule over us;[#Prov. 30:21, 22]
there is none to deliver us from their hand.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,[#Jer. 6:25]
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10Our skin is hot as an oven[#4:8]
with the burning heat of famine.
11Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.
12Princes are hung up by their hands;[#2 Kgs. 25:19-21]
no respect is shown to the elders.
13Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,[#Judg. 16:21]
and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14The old men have left the city gate,[#12]
the young men their music.
15The joy of our hearts has ceased;[#14]
our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head;[#Ps. 89:39; Jer. 13:18; 1:1]
woe to us, for we have sinned!
17For this our heart has become sick,[#Isa. 1:5]
for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
jackals prowl over it.
19But you, O Lord , reign forever;[#Ps. 9:7; 102:12; 145:13]
your throne endures to all generations.
20Why do you forget us forever,[#Ps. 13:1]
why do you forsake us for so many days?
21Restore us to yourself, O Lord , that we may be restored![#Jer. 31:18; Ps. 80:3, 7, 19]
Renew our days as of old—
22unless you have utterly rejected us,[#Jer. 14:19]
and you remain exceedingly angry with us.