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5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.
5:2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
5:3 We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
5:4 Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.
5:5 Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
5:6 We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
5:7 Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
5:8 Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
5:9 Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
5:10 Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
5:11 They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
5:12 The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
5:13 They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
5:14 The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
5:15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.
5:16 The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.
5:17 Therefore our heart is heauy for these things, our eyes are dimme,
5:18 Because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate: the foxes runne vpon it.
5:19 But thou, O Lord, remainest for euer: thy throne is from generation to generation.
5:20 Wherefore doest thou forget vs for euer, and forsake vs so long time?
5:21 Turne thou vs vnto thee, O Lord, and we shalbe turned: renue our dayes as of olde.
5:22 But thou hast vtterly reiected vs: thou art exceedingly angry against vs.