Lamentations 5:10-22
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10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.