📖 Lamentations 5
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Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion.
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Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts.
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3
We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes.
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4
We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money.
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5
Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.
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6
Aforetime we yeelded our selues to the Egyptians, and nowe to the Assyrians, onlye that we might haue bread inough.
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7
Our fathers (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse.
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8
Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.
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9
We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.
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10
Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger.
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11
The wiues are rauished in Sion, and the maydens in the cities of Iuda.
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12
The princes are hanged vp with the hand of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men.
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13
They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood.
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14
The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke.
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15
The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.
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16
The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.
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17
Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.
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18
Because of the hill of Sion that is destroyed: insomuch that the foxes runne vpon it.
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19
But thou O Lorde, that remaynest for euer, and thy seate worlde without ende:
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20
Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long?
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21
O Lord turne thou vs vnto thee, and so shall we be turned, renue our dayes as in olde tymes:
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But thou hast banished vs vtterly, and hast ben displeased at vs.