Lamentations 5

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Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord

1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace! (Ps 89:50; La 3:61) 

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. (Ps 79:1) 

3 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. 

4 We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. 

5 Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest. (Jos 10:24) 

6 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. (Ho 12:1) 

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. (Jer 31:29; Eze 18:2) 

8 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. (Pr 30:21) 

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. (Jer 6:25) 

10 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. (De 32:24; La 4:8) 

11 Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. 

12 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. (2Ki 25:19; La 4:16) 

13 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood. (Jos 9:27; Jud 16:21) 

14 The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music. (Isa 24:8; La 5:12) 

15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. (La 5:14; Am 8:10) 

16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! (Ps 89:39; Jer 13:18; La 1:1) 

17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, (Isa 1:5; La 2:11) 

18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. (Isa 34:13) 

19 But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations. (Ps 9:7; Ps 102:12; Ps 145:13) 

20 Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? (Ps 13:1) 

21 Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old— (Ps 80:3; Ps 80:7; Ps 80:19; Jer 31:18) 

22 unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us. (Jer 14:19) 

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